Three Facts & A Fib – Wed. 4/12: Goat vs. Cow Milk Consumption / Early Use of Sears Catalogs / American’s Proximity to Walmart

Rajitha Ranasinghe / CC

Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one!)

1.  Penicillin, which was discovered in 1928, would have vanquished the pneumonia that killed millions of people during the 1918 influenza pandemic.

2.  People around the world drink more goat milk than cow milk.

3.  People in the late 1800s used to rip pages out of the Sears Roebuck catalog and use them as toilet paper.  They didn’t see any need to buy paper specifically for wiping themselves when the catalog came for free.

4.  90% of Americans live within 30 minutes of a Walmart.

AND THE FIB IS…(scroll down)

#4!

90% of Americans live within 15 minutes of a Walmart.