Originally posted on February 13, 2003 @ 5:25 pm

People have been making Pickles for more than 2000 years. It is one of the oldest methods of preserving food, although it does not have quite the same history as drying, salting and smoking of foods. In the West, the Romans turned it into a fine art and the Egyptians in the Middle East also contributed to Pickling. In India it was turned into a fine art with various seasonal fruits, vegetables and sometimes meats being pickled for providing a taste of the fruit or vegetable through the year.

Originally posted on April 30, 2003 @ 11:08 am

I was watching MTV’s “Urban Legends” and thought 3 were interesting since they are such widespread rumors or facts:

1. Gum doesn’t stay in you for years if you swallow it. A day or two max.
2. Gene Simons did not have the skin under his tongue cut. It’s just a REALLY long tongue.
3. Dog’s mouths really are cleaner than humans. They have a stronger bacteria killing saliva.

The question is when are they going to address the mother of all urban legends: Richard Gere and the gerbil!

Originally posted on April 15, 2003 @ 12:37 am

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald’s.

Originally posted on June 27, 2003 @ 12:30 am

According to statistics, Australian women are most likely to have sex on the first date.

Originally posted on December 26, 2002 @ 11:01 pm

Life Savers were invented in 1912 by Clarence Crane, who had been making and selling chocolate candy in the Cleveland area since 1891 and thought to augment his product line with a non-melting candy during the summer when chocolate sales were slow.

Crane envisioned a round, flat peppermint in preference to the pillow-shaped ones then being imported from Europe and he hired a pharmaceutical pill maker to press his new mints into a circle and punch a hole in them. It was their shape that inspired the name – they looked like life savers, so Life Savers they became. What we now view primarily as a sweet was back then marketed as a breath improver: the original product packaging pictured an old seaman throwing a life preserver to a young female swimmer with the slogan “For That Stormy Breath,” and Life Savers’ early market breakthrough came when saloon owners were sold on offering them in place of the free cloves they usually provided for their patrons to chew.

In 1913 Crane sold his struggling Life Savers line to two New York businessmen for $2,900. One of those men, Edward Noble, devised the now familiar tinfoil wrapper because the candies too quickly lost their flavor in the original packaging, a cardboard tube.