TIL Snapple apparently still exists. I haven't seen Snapple since the early 90s.

When I was a curious teenager I put my wiener in the mouth of a Snapple bottle, and then flew into a panic when it expanded and the bottle got stuck.

those are fun to read, cool.

Just use a hammer and whack it off.

Huh. TIL it left at least one place. What part of the world are you in?

I usually would, but there was a bottle in the way.

The average human will eat an average of eight spiders a year while asleep.

is false. 2 things about that are great: That it is false, and that i now know who circulated this bullshit lol

caller id is illegal in California

There is no law against Caller ID in the state, though there were lengthy debates about making it illegal in the early 1990s.

I genuinely cannot remember or understand why this was a debate. How much money were call centers throwing at politicians?

The cylinder must not be damaged

Spiders, of course, being notorious for liking small dark moist places devoid of the things they eat…

It’s weird to me that anybody ever believed that one.

It doesn't look like it was a lobbying thing. More a pro privacy thing. A ton of Californians had unlisted numbers and didn't want to be revealed, or victims could be tracked by their abusers through caller ID, and privacy advocates said that people shouldn't have their number public without their consent.

but they couldn't figure out how to regulate it properly, so the issue was eventually dropped.

Would you like something to drink? We have water, milk, juice, spiders, Dr Pepper..

I just wish they'd bring back their root beer. Man, that shit was good.

I'd like the new Dr Pepper Spider Bonanza please.

It says average. Jimmy Spider-Snacker developed narcoleptic sleep eating and really affected the mean.

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Coulda been worse. I heard about someone who as a kid put a really strong elastic band used to castrated bulls on their weiner. After being unable to pee they finally told their parents. The emergency room had trouble figuring out how to cut it off without causing damage... But they did successfully.

Snapple sat on a throne of lies (the throne was also a lie)

Interesting. Still widely available in the Pacific Northwest

Made from the best stuff on earth?

On the ENTIRE earth? For $3 a bottle?!

nah, wait this is awesome!

It isn't a big thing in the Southast U.S. I used to get reminded of it every time I flew into JFK or got a dollar slice somewhere in NYC. It seemed many of them used to have a fridge that was just Snapple or water, but it's been years since I've been up there. I doubt dollar slices even exist now : /

idk whats Snapple but this was interesting to read

If you sleep-eat a spider egg sack as they're hatching, that really ups the numbers too

Sooo 25?

that's why fruitopia is superior

This kind of shit was so common before the Internet. Encyclopedias would have completely wrong information or would cite just one source that was outdated.

The way Wikipedia does stuff is so much better.

"average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Which half does this one belong to?

a soft drink that was big in the 90s due to a quirky and effective advertising campaign.

you barely see it around anymore.

To be fair, Earth does have a lot of good stuff.

Snapple had a root beer? :O

you realize that's how printed media works, right?

if you read a book from 1960, it won't have any info from the past 60 years. what they do, is typically re-issue the book with the new info every 5-20 years, depending.

they are putting out new editions of books i read in college 20 years ago, that include updated citations and scholarship.

I see the teas and juices nearly everywhere in California. I regularly get the peach tea myself because it's way better than an Arizona Iced Tea. I mean, you can actually taste tea in Snapple.

Yes. The way Wikipedia does it is so much better.

Yeah, it was clear and my memories tell me it was tasty.

Seems odd. I even carry ring cutters on my belt; I'm sure an emergency room has even more options available.

I get all my facts from Laughy Taffy.

Big in the US in the 90s. It was not big in the 90s here, because it didn't exist at all.

but bubble tape is six feet of fun for you not them

okay ty

wikipedia only exists because of other people's scholarship.

it's not a primary or original source.

The main problem is that you use a tool to get the thing on, and then it constricts a LOT. You could think of it as such a tight ring that you would have a hard time seeing it around all the swollen flesh.