Fake News, #5

• Prior to the wide-spread use of anesthesia, patients requiring amputation were given a tobacco enema until the resulting nicotine poisoning exhausted the patient’s entire neuromuscular system, making them still enough for the surgeon to perform the operation. 

• Slenderman has been DJing at a rave club in Western Manitoba since 1983.

• HTML 6.2, a web technology that will not allow a statement to be posted to the web or used in an e-mail unless it is true, is currently under development at the IANA in Switzerland.

• The state of Minneapolis has more freshwater lakes than the entire country of Canada.

• Howard Hughes, a skilled aviator who conducted secret intelligence missions for the United States, flew his last solo mission for several hours over London, England, wearing no clothing whatsoever. 

• Jupiter’s moon Europa experiences over one hundred tsunamis each year.

• Adolf Hitler’s likeness generates over three million dollars of licensing revenue every year.

• Pink Flamingos get the color in their skin from crustaceans living in industrialized seawater.
   
• Because of lackadaisical product labeling regulations in Minnesota, laundry detergent pods have become a health epidemic by exploding in children’s throats.

• There are four breeds of poultry approved for the production of chicken wings in the United States, a breed each for small, medium, large, and extra-large chicken wings.

• The netting of shellfish and the clubbing of baby seals and other maritime game is forbidden along Jerusalem’s Whaling Wall.