It doesn't take much to get a rumor started. One misheard supposition or secret mom campaign and the next day you could find out that everyone thinks your girlfriend is a goat. It's hard to forget about that one. Here are more times people were wrongfully misjudged as well as rumors about Americans that turned out to be true.
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This AskReddit thread explores various, crazy rumors that non-Americans heard about Americans that ended up being true. Stuff like Americans drinking out of red solo cups, the size of drinks, milk being packaged and distributed in gallons, and the sink water not tasting like garbage (in some places), are actually real life.
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If you didn't grow up with garbage disposals and cheez wiz, you might also think that they aren't real. Also paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for education. Here are some things people were dumbfounded to discover actually do exist in the US of A. For the other way around, here are some culture shocked Americans describing sharing things they didn't realize were so American.
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Adult film star Harriet Sugarcookie (what a damn 'stage' name full of sweetness) up and decided to go around questioning some well-known porn stars about those dirty and depraved thoughts that have raced across the sex-crazed mindscapes of many an individual. They even proceed to do us one better, and dish out some sex tips.
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According to sources all over the internet, comedian Jon Lovitz got engaged to 27-year-old Jessica Lowndes over the Easter weekend. If you're not a fan of the TV show '90210', or moderately successful pop music then you might be asking... who?
If you saw the story you might have Googled her to find out after the serious love affair went viral. So then apparently the act, and this bizarre, pop-up video style music video were all worth it:
She's admitted the "early April Fools" joke on her Instagram so it looks like their "relationship" is over. Sorry, Jon Lovitz, time to go back to lurking in the shadows.
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OK so it's just a concept design, but still, this would represent a major design overhaul by Apple if it ended up looking anything like this. Per the tech community:
The general specs of this concept include a 4 inch screen with a 10 Mp camera, and a very high-end 5 Mp front facing camera, which will really be more than capable of taking self-portraits, as well as for video-chatting.
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By Johnny Walker
Starbucks is NOT giving away free $50 gift cards. Please inform the less savvy of your friends before they buy some Nigerian prince a new jet ski.
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By Unknown
This is NOT legitimate.
According to Snopes, the photo is from an incident near a public park in Buenos Aires. No animals were harmed, and there has been zero evidence of this in the US. (Other versions claim discoveries in Chicago and Massachusetts.)
All you're doing by perpetuating this nonsense is giving bad people bad ideas. Stop it. slaps your face
