Michael Phelps facts

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I was tipped off to this by Yun, who told me to go read the comments under this post at Gawker about Michael Phelps’ incredible physique. It turns out that people love Phelps so much that they are beginning to compile ridiculous “Michael Phelps facts” in much the same way that those Chuck Norris facts are floating around.

Here are some examples:

• Michael Phelps is a 7-foot man mountain who can palm a medicine ball.
• Michael Phelps swam the Atlantic Ocean…for fun.
• Michael Phelps once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.
• While urinating, Michael Phelps is easily capable of welding titanium.
• Michael Phelps CAN believe it’s not butter.
• When Michael Phelps lands in New York his plane touches down at JFK, LaGuardia AND Newark Liberty Airports… at the same time.
• When Michael Phelps goes fishing, he catches orca.
• Michael Phelps knows where Carmen Sandiego is.
• If you spell Michael Phelps in Scrabble, you win. Forever.

There’s at least one website attempting to compile all of these facts. You can read them over at Michael Phelps facts. But man, did those comments make me laugh.