OMG True!: Incredible and Amazing Facts

By Ross Martin

Easy to read shorts and stories never taking up more than two pages, OMG True! paves the way into a new era of the reality check! Did you know that the rights to the Idaho potato were sold for one-hundred-fifty dollars? Did you know that a woman that was frozen solid, was revived by doctors, and walked out of the hospital a month later? Did you ever think that a UFO would show up in a painting from the 15th century? I bet you didn’t. I bet there’s a lot that you wish you knew more about... Perhaps it’s time to get to the bottom of the OMG True!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483542850

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OMG True!

By: Ross Martin

Table of Contents

Just the Facts                                                    9

Food and Drug Factoids                                  10

Crime and Punishment                                    14

Special Section: Torture                                  24

Military Mishaps                                           37

Say What                                                         43

The Macabre                                                   64

Religion, Psychics, and the Supernatural        73

Weird Animal Facts                                         81

The Truly Bizarre                                            91

OMG True

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First Printed in paperback, November, 2014

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ISBN-13:  978-1502743015

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1502743019

Library of Congress Control Number: XXXXXXXXX

First Published to Electronic Media, November, 2014

Under:

ISBN-13: 97814834542850

First Physical Printing, November, 2014

Be your own kind of beautiful.

Just The facts

"As hard as it is to believe, we don’t always get the facts. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we the people are gullible or stupid, only fallible and yes, human. We just don’t always do our homework.

Other times, wherein we want the truth to be all-enveloping in our world, we don’t have the resources available at hand. Hence, I’ve put together this compilation of little known facts. I hope you find some of this volume enlightening and all of it fun.

I will travel to both well known and little known places, touch on math and art, peruse scientific objectivity, dissect nursery rhymes and urban legend, and I will do it while nailing down certainty—why, you say? Because I like the facts! Bon Voyage!

Food and drug Factoids

Oyster Ice cream was, at one time, one of the most popular flavors in America—eww.

Fort Knox Kentucky not only holds the American gold reserve but also houses the US supply of Opium for use as a painkiller during war.

Ninety percent of all US paper currency contains trace amounts of the drug Cocaine due to abusers using the bills as straws. The exception is in Washington D.C., where the cocaine concentration on paper denominations is ninety-five percent.

The first Hamburger served in America came from Louie’s Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut.

Luther Burbank, who developed the Idaho Russet potato, sold the rights to the premium spud for one-hundred-fifty dollars cash. Today, Burbank, California is his namesake.

Luther Burbank, Inventor of the Idaho Russet Potato

The McDonald’s fast food chain is the 90th largest economy in the world. To put this into scale, at any given time, 75 McDonald’s hamburgers per second are cooked and served.

French fries were first introduced to the United States by none other than Thomas Jefferson. In 1802, He ordered Potatoes a La Francais to be

added to the White House menu. This is what they were called before they were called French Fries.

Chocolate contains a substance called anandamide that might mimic the effects of marijuana, boosting the