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How Clowns Use Eggs to Trademark Their Face

By Ryan | Published: May 19, 2010
For the next couple days I’m going to be hanging out with a few hundred people with strange fashion sense at a clown convention. So many clowns, but I shouldn’t have any trouble telling them all apart. You see, to copy another clown’s look is about the worst thing you could do in the funny [...]
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The Suspiciously Sweet Justice of Aspartame

By Ryan | Published: May 17, 2010
Aspartame! The mere mention of it sends shivers through the spines of proactive label-readers. It is an artificial sweetener that was accidentally discovered to be 180 times sweeter than sugar with no calories. Featured prominently in “NutraSweet” and diet soda drinks, where you will find the words “CONTAINS ASPARTAME” emblazoned on the front label as [...]
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FACT: Police in airplanes can hand out speeding tickets

By Ryan | Published: January 21, 2010
As I was driving down a remote highway this afternoon I saw a curiosity-inspiring sign. “Speed Limit Enforced By Aircraft”. It immediately induced several silly scenarios to play out in my head. I suppose if you got it up to 260 km/h (160 miles per hour) you could potentially be chased by a Cessna aircraft… [...]
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FACT: in the US a tomato is legally a vegetable for tax reasons

By Ryan | Published: December 14, 2009
It wasn’t all that long ago that we learned tomatoes (along with peppers, cucumbers, and anything else with seeds) are really a fruit, however that is not true in a United States court of law. In 1883 the US Supreme Court passed a law that classified tomatoes as a vegetable. The reason, of course, was [...]
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