The Flower List: So whenever you see a Snapple cap, think of us.

Yesterday, I took my Algebra I Regents. Prior to the actual exam, their was a review session provided by three of my school's teachers, so trying to get some extra study time in, I went. When the review session ended though, we weren't aloud to just go and take the test, so we had an hour or so to kill. Most people either brought lunch, or walked down to the deli to go buy some food. My friend, Sam and myself had our own makeshift picnic on the school's front lawn, which, after finding out the hard way, really needed some TLC because I could've sued that school for the state of itchy-ness my legs were in. One way or another, me and Sam started talking about Snapple. Y'know Snapple! That delicious tea company with the really cool "Real Facts" on the inside of every bottle cap? Well, we've decided to collect as many "Real Facts" as we can.

After doing some research on Snapple, I found out that yes, some "Real Fact" caps are retired, so unless we go all out, and buy them on EBay or something, we're most likely not going to get ALL of them. And that's okay. We just want to see how many we can get. So, as everyone slowly came from the deli to take the Regents, we took as many Snapple caps as we good. Thanks Nick for being our "dumpster diver"! Hahah.

Here's a little bit about Snapple, that I copy and pasted from their website (snapple.com). Why don't you check it out? It's pretty neat. It all started in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1972. Childhood friends Leonard Marsh, Hyman Golden and Arnold Greenburg saw more potential in fruit than just something to throw in the lunchroom. They began selling fruit drinks to health food stores under the name Unadulterated Food Corporation. But where did they get the name Snapple? It actually came from a carbonated apple soda that was part of the original beverage line. The soda had a great snappy apple taste. Now that’s cleverness at its best. Fast forward to the era of hair bands and acid-washed jeans. We’re talking 1987, my friends. That’s when Snapple teas were born. Snapple Lemon Tea was first. The godfather of all Snapple teas. Today, Snapple produces more than 50 varieties of teas, juice drinks and flavored waters - all Made from the Best Stuff on Earth.®

As I'm reading more and more about Snapple right now, I thought I'd share some interesting things! Credits to wikipedia.org. Which as you know, I know and love despite what others say. :)

There have been many attempts to collect Snapple caps but none that could come close to completion.
Snapple Top Collection Services is a database, "Global Community Collection", that collects photos of Snapple "Real Facts" caps from its visitors to display as a reference to all Snapple fans.
The basis of the site is to bring together a community of Snapple fans and simultaneously show the power of the internet. In fact, Dani links the personal website links to the caps they submit in appreciation of their submission. The goal is to collect all of the "Real Facts" ever printed.

#31 "The average human will eat an average of eight spiders while sleeping." This statistic was proven in 1993 as an example of the absurd things people will believe simply because they come across them on the internet, as uncovered by Snopes.
#36 "A duck's quack does not echo." Tested by Snopes and Mythbusters. Both tests concluded that a duck's quack does echo but is hard to distinguish.
#69 "Caller ID is illegal in California." There is no law against Caller ID in the state, though there were lengthy debates about legalizing it in the early 1990s.
#77 "No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times." This myth was proven wrong by Britney Gallivan in 2002 when she managed 12 folds. In 2005, drawing on Gallivan's accomplishment, the Discovery Channel show MythBusters, folded a piece of paper 11 times. The piece of paper used in MythBusters was an oversized piece of paper and thinner than a standard 8.5"x11" piece of paper.
#89 "The average American walks 18,000 steps a day." There are many 10,000 steps a day health programs which consider 10,000 a stretch goal. Such programs state that a "sedentary person" only walks 1,000 to 3,000 steps a day.
#114 "The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old." A tortoise named Harriet once lived to be 175 years old.
#116 "The largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50 feet long and weigh 2 tons." Full-grown whale sharks do not weigh 2 tons (4,000 lbs or 1,820 kg), but are much heavier, weighing up to 16 tons (32,000 lbs or 14,550 kg).
#162 "The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit." In fact, the core of the sun reaches 15 million degrees Celsius, about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. #794 "Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskien [sic] Point, the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart." It is true that Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the Continental United States, but Badwater in Death Valley, not Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, is the lowest point in the United States.
#889 "The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers." It is true that Rhodopis is considered the oldest telling of the Cinderella story, but her slippers are consistently described as rose-gold. Some claim that Charles Perrault's classic French telling featured fur slippers, and that vair (fur) was mistranslated as verre (glass), but this is believed to be an urban legend.

Click on "Snapple Collection" under "Some Fantastic Flower List Pages. Click And Bloom!" on our side bar <---- to see what we've collected so far, and what we need! I'll be sure to update it everytime I get a new one, so check back on it from time to time if I don't talk about it on my regular posts. (: