Ten Rumors I’d Like to Start

1.  When a baby is born, the shock of breathing raw oxygen for the first time gives him super endurance. An infant can, in the first two weeks of life, run the Boston Marathon if only he were able to stand up.

2. Dora the Explorer is based on the very true story of Esmerelda Aquino, a diminutive nature photographer who lived in Mexico with her pet monkey.

3. We get the phrase “Watch out!” from the early 19th century custom of hurling watches at strangers.

4. Kim Kardashian has a severe shrimp allergy.

5. A single Dalmatian contains enough energy to power the entire Los Angeles electricity grid for 96 hours.

6. The Old English term for a deflated rubber ball is a “Milklass Utter.”

7. Europeans are not only allowed to drink beer at McDonald’s, but required to as well.

8. The Chinese have 17 different words for “Jackie Chan.”

9. Since 1976, every single issue of the New York Times contains the word “fuck” no fewer than 11 times.

10. Most Renaissance scholars agree that Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were the same guy.