The Big Pizza Lobby Is Extra Large And Other Facts From This Week
Big Pizza Is Spending A Lot Of Dough On Lobbyists
While fast food companies are struggling to appear healthy and sustainable, the pizza lobby fights for your right to eat pizza. Between the 2012 and 2014 elections, pizza companies contributed $1.5 million to lawmakers. They've doled out the cheese prevent calorie labels on menus, and greased the wheels to keep frozen pizza in school cafeterias. Everyone loves pizza1, but it's only because Big Pizza has the dough to keep it that way.
Pee On These Walls And The Walls Will Pee Back
Hamburg's St. Pauli neighborhood: A nice part of town where nice people go to party. Sometimes, the number of readily available toilets outstrips the number of nice people who need to pee. As such, those nice people resort to doing not a very nice thing: peeing on walls. To correct this sort of behavior, a group of St. Pauli residents painted a handful of popular piss spots with hydrophobic paint. Now, when a reveler decides to relieve themselves, the urine doinks off the wall and back onto their shoes and pants.
It's Not Easy To Pass Snacks Around In A Fighter Jet
Strange how flying changes the way we think about food. On cross-country flights, a dumb bag of terra cotta potato chips can prevent you from just losing it on the person calmly, silently farting next to you. In a fighter jet, even passing a Snickers bar to your co-pilot can be an exciting, otherworldly experience.
There Is Too Much Poop On Mount Everest
Everybody poops, even those climbing the world's tallest mountain. In fact, every year more than 700 people poop on the slopes of Everest. Now, this literal mountain of feces has Nepal's mountaineering association worried that the shit is going to figuratively hit the fan and spark a large-scale heath hazard.
Casual Sex Is Improving America's Marriages
Every marathon must start with the first step, and every successful relationship must start with a random hookup — at least according to match.com data. Based on the dating service's analysis, over a quarter of survey respondents have turned a one-night stand in to a successful long-term relationship. So keep it casual, single people. Have sex.2 Maybe it's good! Have sex with that person again! Get to know them. Perhaps they're into the same things as you? Have breakfast with them. Add them on Gchat. Favorite their tweets. Just stop thinking of sex as some kind of reward for learning all the facts about someone. It's just another part of the same equation.
Bees Busted New York City Biggest Weed Grower
Here are some facts. Arthur Mondella used to operate one of New York's largest maraschino cherry factories. Arthur Mondella also used to operate one of New York's largest marijuana-growing operations in the basement of said maraschino cherry factory. Arthur Mondella was undone by the bees that frequented his maraschino cherry factory — their red hue convincing investigators to take a second look at the factory. Sadly, those same bees and his subsequent impending arrest which caused him to commit suicide.
