The below entries are either entirely true or wildly false. I will leave it to you to decide. However, there is a 100% guarantee they will be stories. Or at least, story-esque. Stories can be everything from short fiction, to news reports, to lies. "What good is a lie in a blog called True Stories?", you may ask. I'm afraid I don't have that kind of knowledge, and frankly, I'm also afraid of anybody who does.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Unlikely Facts for 8/23/2010

•The highest grossing film of all time is Gone with the Wind. The term “gross” originated when movie producers saw how much money they had made. They said “this is wicked gross, dude.”

•Mark Twain’s older brother, David “Hickory” Twain died this day in 1901 from a cannonball to the chest. His last words were reportedly “There’s no way, you’re half-blind and 200 yards away. Also you’re firing in the wrong direction.”

•The average human belch contains the belcher’s darkest secrets, but you have to be listening very carefully to hear them.

•The rhinoceros has been known to charge without provocation, but in reality they just think you’re a total loser and deserve to be rhinoceros’d.

•The inventor of Axe bodyspray was a man named Daniel Axe. Before hitting it big in the highly-competitive bodyspray industry, he was a nature conservationist and a park ranger. I bet you thought I was going to say lumberjack.

*Bonus unlikely fact: this entire entry has been a palindrome.

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