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Dreyer’s Ice Cream took a very unusual step to make sure their talented taste-tester was secured. They actually insured his tongue for $1 million! John Harrison must have had some pretty awesome tasting skills.

We don’t want to upset anybody, but the Star Wars lightsaber duel doesn’t work in reality. Assuming the sword is made of light, it cannot have a shadow. But of course, in the movie we can sometimes see the lightsaber’s shadow. This is another reason why learning physics from sci-fi movies is not the best idea.

Ketchup didn’t originally contain tomatoes but was rather a concoction made of fish or mushrooms. Once tomato ketchup was invented, a physician named John Cooke Bennet had the brilliant idea to press the sauce into pills and sell them as a cure for diarrhea, indigestion and rheumatism. The ketchup medicine craze didn’t last long.