You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

Orville Redenbacher is the #1 best-selling popcorn in the world. Its inventor, Orville, began to grow popping corn in 1919, when he was just 12 years old.

[Lee Stewart]

Bizarre popcorn flavors include Beer-flavored Pub-Corn, Yo-Pop’s Butterfinger Crunch Popcorn, KukuRuZa’s Buffalo Blue Cheese Popcorn, Popcorn Palace’s Jalapeno popcorn, Jolly Time’s Mallow Magic Yummy Marshmallow Flavor Microwave Popcorn, Popcorn Pavilion’s Brown Butter & Sea Salt Popcorn, Kernel Encore’s Pumpkin popcorn, Popcornopolis’ Cupcake popcorn, and 479˚ Popcorn’s Black Truffle and White Cheddar popcorn

[Lee Stewart]

Popcorn has been sold in theaters since 1912. It has been a big money maker not only because popcorn is overpriced, but also because people usually get thirsty and, consequently, buy sodas or water as well.

In movie theaters, for every dollar spent on popcorn, about 90 cents is profit.

[Lee Stewart]

The ideal popping temperature for popcorn is 400-460° Fahrenheit. A kernel will pop, on average, when it reaches 347° Fahrenheit.

[Lee Stewart]

Seller’s Description:
1970 Chevrolet Corvette LS5 454/390hp. White/Black (Leather) VIN # 194370S416125. Powered by the first year 454/390hp V8 engine, this numbers matching Corvette has only 40,000 original miles. Engine block VIN reads CGW70s416125, the CGW verifies the motor as a true 454 that was born with the car. TH-400 automatic transmission. Removable T-Tops, power windows, power steering, and power disc brakes. New front and rear suspension. Rally wheels wrapped in brand new red line tires. Completely rust free, solid frame. Runs and drives excellent. Asking $36,000.

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds...tml?refer=home

[Lee Stewart]

While Hertz Rental Car is known for offering Shelby GT350 Mustangs in the mid-1960s, it actually rented some amazing sports cars several years before that. Ordered through Luby Chevrolet in Denver, Hertz offered a handful of 1963 Corvette “ski cars” in Colorado that wore snow tires and were equipped with rear-mounted ski racks. The car being offered is the only known survivor of fewer than 10 made.

[Lee Stewart]

Prestone Antifreeze postcard

[Lee Stewart]

The exact origin of “The Show-Me State" is unclear, but credit is generally given to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver. In an 1899 speech in Philadelphia, he said “I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."

[Lee Stewart]

New York's nickname came well before the Empire State Building went up. It's often credited to a quote from a letter that George Washington wrote in 1785, calling New York “the Seat of the Empire."

[Lee Stewart]

In 1935, the tourism bureau of New Mexico called the state “The Land of Enchantment" on a brochure, hoping it would bring visitors in to see the state's rich history and expansive beauty.