Fact or Crap Trivia (2016)

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There is no record of a cat harpsichord being played, but a German scholar did create a similar mechanism used as a treatment for ADHD. The idea was "once a patient sees the mechanism being played, they would inevitably be cured." Not FDA, or ASPCA, approved!



Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Dogs treat humans like they treat other dogs; to them, a human is just another canine, as opposed to cats, who treat humans as a separate species.​
 
CRAP

It is just the opposite, cats treat humans like just another cat. In all their encounters with humans, their behavior does not change to accommodate humans. Dogs are more adaptable and change their dog-like behaviors to pander and please humans. Cats rule, dogs serve!



Thursday, September 8, 2016

An organ recital currently being played in a German town started in 2001 and will end in 2640; it is scheduled to last 639 years.​
 
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Each note of John Cage's Organ 2/ASLAP (As Slow As Possible) can last over a year. The last note change was in October 2013 and will continuously play until the next note, due in 2020. I know it's rude to leave part-way through a performance but ...



Friday, September 9, 2016

The record for being hit by lightning and surviving is 17 times.​
 
CRAP

Not "real" Smurfs, but a family called the Fugates, known as the "Blue People of Kentucky," did live in Kentucky during the 1800s. A generic condition called methemoglobinemia concentrated within the small community was the cause. In this family, being "blue" was normal!



Wednesday, September 14, 2016

The Viking "Sigurd the Mighty" was killed by an enemy that he had beheaded hours earlier.​
 
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Sigurd tied his victim's head to his horse's saddle as a trophy, but while riding home the severed head's teeth grazed Sigurd's leg, and he died from the infection. And that's the tooth, the whole tooth!



Thursday, September 15, 2016

A referendum question which appeared on a 1993 ballot in San Francisco gave voters the chance to decide whether or not police officer Bob Geary would be allowed to patrol while carrying his ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan O'Smarty.​
 
FACT

He won by a 51 percent to 49 percent margin. Brendan was dressed in a policeman's uniform, had the badge number 1/2, and carried a water pistol. O'Smarty was no dummy.



Friday, September 16, 2016

A Sardinian cheese contains live maggots that leap up to 6 inches into the air as the cheese is consumed.​
 
CRAP

Most Muppets are left-handed, because most Muppeteers are right-handed and use their right hand to operate the Muppet's head. This leaves their left hand free to operate the Muppet's left hand. Handy information!



Tuesday, September 20, 2016

The Caesar salad was originally invented by the Romans and named after Julius Caesar.​
 
CRAP

The Caesar salad is attributed to Caesar Cardini, a man who operated Italian restaurants in Mexico. Fere libenter homines id quad volunt credunt (Men believe what they wish to be true), as Caesar himself would say.



Wednesday, September 21, 2016

During the 18th century, if you could not afford the admission to the Royal Zoo in London, you could pay by bringing a cat or a dog to be fed to the lions.​
 
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