Top 12+ Snapple “Facts” That Are Actually False
Snapple Fact #70
Nope. Caller ID is legal in California and every other state, so you won't be getting away with making prank calls anytime soon. This Snapple fact is likely a holdover from the early days of caller ID services, when California, citing privacy concerns, was the last U.S. state to roll it out. That happened in 1996, so this Snapple fact is about 30 years out of date.
Snapple Fact #868
Thomas Jefferson invented a lot of things, including a revolving wooden clothes horse that he kept in his closet at Monticello (which may be why he gets saddled with the coat hanger claim), but he did not create the modern coat hanger.
That honor goes to Albert J. Parkhouse, an employee of Timberlake Wire & Novelty Company. Parkhouse and his co-workers didn't have enough hooks to hang their coats on, so he grabbed some wire and started twisting. Because the hanger was created at work, the company applied for and received a patent for the clothes hanger in 1906.
Snapple Fact #89
If someone walked 18,000 steps in a day, they would travel 7.5 miles. That’s a lot of walking. It's hard to know exactly how this number was quantified (there's not a lot of room on a Snapple cap!), but the Mayo Clinic says that the average U.S. adult walks about 3,000 to 4,000 steps every day. That's closer to 2 miles, which sounds much less exhausting.
Snapple Fact #50
What? A mosquito doesn’t have any teeth at all! Instead, it has a proboscis—a system of long, piercing tubes that it uses to suck blood from its victims. So even though we say we have a "bite" when a mosquito gives us an itchy, annoying welt, it is not using teeth to do it.
Snapple Fact #85
If you look at the Mona Lisa today, the subject doesn't appear to have eyebrows (or eyelashes). But depending on the art historian or scientist you ask, the 500-year-old Mona Lisa definitely had eyebrows, at least at one time. At least that's the theory.
An engineer from Paris made a splash by theorizing that the Mona Lisa was originally painted with eyebrows, but that time or restoration efforts had caused them to fade. The theory remains controversial, so we rate this Snapple fact as mixed.
