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26 September 2007

Fantasy “facts”

ON opening his bottle of Snapple, Ben Haller discovered the following “Real Fact” on the inside of the cap: “Broccoli is the only vegetable that is a flower.”

“Cauliflower?” Haller thought. “Artichoke?”

In a spirit of outrage that any Feedback reader would share, he went to , where his bottle cap proclaimed he could “get all the ‘Real Facts'”. Here he found “A male firefly’s light is twice as bright as a female’s”; a vast over-generalisation, at best, Haller says. “The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and fingertips”; Haller believes the clitoris easily wins this contest. And what about…

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