These True Facts Sound Incredibly Fake

Smoking Problem

Pez is known today as a delicious treat for kids, usually coming out of a silly character head. However, the tasty little candy was originally intended to be an alternative to smoking. Created in 1927 by Eduard Haas III in Vienna, Austria, he made mint-flavored candies that would encourage smokers to pop in their mouth instead of a cigarette. Not quite the outcome he expected...

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The More You Know

  • There's a word for tapping someone on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them.
  • The first time Reddit was mentioned in the New York Times, it was described as "foolish collectivism" that "grinds away the Web's edges and saps it of its humanity".
  • The majority of polar bears live in Canada—not in the Arctic.
  • People don’t sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.
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