Snapple’s Bottle Cap Facts Are Often Wrong

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Snapple has been printing facts on the underside of its bottlecaps for over a decade now, but maybe we should stop referring to them as “facts.” Some are misleading, outdated, or easily misproven.

The Atlantic looked into the veracity of hundreds of Snapple Facts, and found that many don’t hold up.

There are contradictory facts (was Manhattan or Philadelphia the U.S.’s first capital? There are caps that say both!), as well as bizarre facts that can’t really be verified (the most popular goldfish name is “Jaws”?). Interestingly, Snapple says they “thoroughly” fact-check the bottle caps, even though The Atlantic found that many could be debunked with the very first search result in Google.

Head on over to The Atlantic to see just how wrong Snapple can be.

 

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Dan Nosowitz is a freelance writer and editor who has written for Popular Science, The Awl, Gizmodo, Fast Company, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. He holds an undergraduate degree from McGill University and currently lives in Brooklyn, because he has a beard and glasses and that's the law. You can follow him on Twitter.