A woman tried to sue Cap'n Crunch because she thought she had been eating real berries four 4 years!

Cap’n Crunch was introduced in 1963 by Quaker Oats Company. The sea captain that is the mascot or face of Cap’n Crunch has a name, Horatio Magellan Crunch. There are several variations of the cereal including one with berries and another with peanut butter. Cap’n Crunch has received one of the worst nutritional scores of any cereal marketed to children. Also, eating the cereal can cause “crunch mouth” which is a condition where the pallet and gums become irritated from abrasions caused by the crunchy cereal.

In 2009, Janine Sugawara went to court against PepsiCo, Inc., who owns the cereal; because she believed she’d been eating real crunchberry fruit when eating the cereal. It took her four years of eating the cereal to realize that she wasn’t eating any real fruit at all and that the cereal was really unhealthy. In the end, the judge threw out the case for its ridiculousness.

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In the 2005 Tour de France, the fastest finisher never linked to doping came in 23rd!

As you probably have heard, a big scandal was uncovered recently of competitive bikers doping themselves for enhanced performance. Lance Armstrong was in the middle of the scandal and was stripped of some of his titles. The 2005 Tour de France is an example of just how deep doping went in the biking world.

Although it was Lance's 7th straight victory, he was stripped of his title for doping. Had they chosen the next fastest finisher who has never been linked to doping, they would’ve had to give it to the 23rd place finisher! During the race, 143 urine tests and 21 blood tests were conducted. None of them returned positive. The top five of the general classification of 2005 would not compete the 2006 edition. Armstrong had retired after the 2005 Tour, and a few days before the 2006 edition, after it became public that Basso, Ullrich and Mancebo were under investigation in the Operacion Puerto doping case, the Tour organization and team leaders decided to exclude all cyclists under investigation from joining the Tour.

Vinokourov, fifth-placed in 2005, was not under investigation, but his team was reduced to five cyclists, below the minimal required amount of six, so he could also not compete.

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Drunk people are more likely to survive injuries!

Although drinking might make you more prone to an injury, like falling from a rooftop, getting into a fight, that same alcohol might help your injuries not be so severe. To be fair: this means that if you get a life-threatening gun shot from a bar fight, being drunk helps you, but you probably wouldn't have gotten shot if you were sober. Here's why this happens:

When we get injured, our bodies go into an emergency preservation mode, which trips a series of physiological panic buttons that can ironically end in death. Alcohol, however, seems to make the body not hit those panic buttons as hard or as much, helping prevent death.

The research found a correlation between the upper levels of intoxication and lower mortality. It means that for this to work, you have to be wasted, so don't try to use this research as an excuse for doing dangerous stuff while drunk.

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Brock was replaced in Pokemon because writers thought he was racially offensive!

Following the adventures in the Kanto region in the Pokemon tv series, the main characters had some adventures in a place called The Orange Islands. During that period, Brock (one of the three main characters) was replaced by a character named Tracy. When Ash left the Orange Islands, Tracy was replaced by Brock in turn.

Fans had speculated about why this happened for a long time. In an interview, the director and storyboard artists, Masamitsu Hidaka, explained what happened. Hidaka said that the team behind Pokemon realized it was going global, and that people in America would view Brock as a racist stereotype because of his eyes.

To err on the side of caution, they created Tracy, a caucasian, to avoid any controversy. Eventually the writers realized that Brock hadn't offended anyone, so they wrote him back in.

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The deepest part of the ocean is NOT the part closest to the center of the Earth!

The deepest part of the ocean is, of course, the Mariana's Trench. Just to clarify, I’m not talking about the Canadian pop punk band, but deepest part of the world’s oceans located in the Western Pacific Ocean (a lot less musical, just as interesting). It reaches a maximum known depth of 10.994km (this is greater than the height of Mt.Everest), has a width of 69km, and is about 2500km long. 

However, contrary to popular belief and common sense, “the deepest part of the world’s ocean” does not equal “the part of the seafloor closest to the center of Earth.” This is because the Earth is not a perfect sphere; its radius is about 25km less at the poles that at the equator. 

Therefore, parts of the Arctic Ocean seabed are at least 13 km closer to the Earth’s center than Mariana’s Trench. But hey, they there’s no band named “Parts of the Arctic Ocean Seabed.” 

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