Week 23's Fact or Fiction

[Toktokkie]

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The Pillsbury Company purchased Burger King in 1967. Since then, the number of Burger King locations has frown from 274 to 11 400 worldwide. Pillsbury is part of General Mills, Inc. which owns many recognized brands, including Bisquick, Progresso, Yoplait, and Häagen-Dazs.

The first baseball team, the New York Knickerbockers wore straw hats.

Hee-hee, I have an update. In December 2002, Burger King Corporation was sold to a group comprised of Texas Pacific Group, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.

Straw hats worn is fact.

[Jangar]

Hee-hee, I have an update. In December 2002, Burger King Corporation was sold to a group comprised of Texas Pacific Group, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.

And the statements are taken from a 2005 calender

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[Jangar]

Well done everyone :thumbs:

The straw hats worn in the 1850s proved impractical, so the team switched to pillbox style hats, similar to those worn by soldiers in the Civil War. In 1876 these hats became official throughout the national league.

The Kiwi was originally called the Chinese gooseberry.

[dudette]

Well done everyone :thumbs:

The straw hats worn in the 1850s proved impractical, so the team switched to pillbox style hats, similar to those worn by soldiers in the Civil War. In 1876 these hats became official throughout the national league.

The Kiwi was originally called the Chinese gooseberry.

I do know that kiwi fruit's alternative name is Chinesee gooseberry (I assume that is what you mean by Kiwi ...:cheeky: )

So I say fact

[sooibrand]

a fact

[penelope]

I say fact as well

[Jangar]

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The kiwi is indigenous to China and was discovered in the Yangtze Valley. New Zealand farmers began cultivating the furry fruit in the early 1900s and marketed it as the kiwifruit. New Zealand monopolized the market until California also started growing kiwis on a large scale in the 1960s.

Shel Silverstein wrote articles for Playboy magazine before becoming a children's author.

[sooibrand]

sounds far out enough to be fact

[penelope]

I guess fact

[Jangar]

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For nearly two decades, Shel Silverstein worked as a contributor to Playboy, where several of his cartoons were also published. Later he went on to write the best-selling books A Light in the Attic and The Giving Tree. Silverstein earned a Grammy for Best Country Song for the lyrics he wrote for Johnny Cash's 1969 hit "A Boy Named Sue".

See you next week with new and improved statements :p