True facts may in fact be false

[angelophile]

Another great syndicated feed, this time gullible_info which updates daily(ish) with many fascinating facts and statistics from its homepage www.gullible.info.

Of course, the fact that all these facts are completely made up is neither here nor there.

Test your friends' gullibility with such classics as:

• The television series Full House was proposed originally by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to promote family values to the secular world.

• Henry Cabot, upon his "discovery" of Newfoundland in 1498, was greeted by a fleet of more than 100 Portuguese fishing boats.

• Molten wax was worshipped in ancient Minoa.

• Only three condoms per every five manufactured will be used for intercourse.

• Over forty-five years of space exploration, no fewer than six dogs, eleven cats, four thousand mice and an aquarium-full of crickets are believed to have been stranded in low Earth orbit.

• Traditionally, belts were a symbol of poverty worn by peasants who could not afford properly fitted pants. They came into general fashion in the early 1890s.

• The energy contained in just one tank of gasoline, if applied all at once, is enough to lift a VW Bug into orbit.

• Though hard to imagine by today's standards, Sean Connery's James Bond used a female companion as a shield under hostile fire no fewer than eight times over the course of the six original Bond movies.

• From ages 14 through 22, Abraham Lincoln owned only two pairs of pants.

• Errant champagne corks kill more than two dozen people every year. One third of fatal champagne accidents occur at weddings.