You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

In 1943, the US banned the production of sliced bread as a wartime cost-cutting measure. Its disappearance from shelves did not go over well with Americans, who were already used to the convenience of pre-sliced loaves. After two months of public ire, the ban was lifted, with the New York Times announcing, "Sliced Bread Put Back on Sale; Housewives' Thumbs Safe Again."

[Lee Stewart]

Despite its name, white chocolate doesn't actually contain any real chocolate components. According to Bon Appetit, the item is made up of a blend of sugar, milk products, vanilla, lecithin, and cocoa butter - no chocolate solids.

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The latest movie presentation system: Screen X

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In the last 3,500 years in the civilized world, there has been more time collectively that civilizations have been at war than civilizations have had peace time. It was recently calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there has only be a total of 230 years of peace.

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Retired basketball sensation Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

[Lee Stewart]

The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.

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All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job in case their pants split.

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In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.