Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one!)
1. It seems like there are COUNTLESS bubbles in a glass of champagne, and scientists used to estimate that there are at least 15 million. Now, new research says that it’s less than you may think: Just about 1 million bubbles per glass.
2.Mick Jagger and Keith Richards randomly met each other at a train station in 1961. Mick was 18, Keith was 17, and they started talking about a blues record that Mick was holding.
3.The deadliest mountain in the world is “K2,” the second-highest mountain in the world behind Mount Everest. Only 377 people have successfully climbed it . . . and 91 have died trying.
4. Chlorine was first added to pools in the 1940s because it could kill pneumonia.
AND THE FIB IS…(scroll down)
#4!
Chlorine was first added to pools in the 1940s because it could kill polio.
(Food & Wine / BBC / Wikipedia / HASA)
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