Curious facts tumble from the pages that the aspidistra owed its popularity, for example, to its ability to withstand the fumes from gas lighting.

ECONOMIST: 19th-century domesticity

Case in point: a scene from the upcoming documentary Gasland, which features a man lighting his faucet water on fire and making the ridiculous claim that natural gas drilling is responsible for the incident.

FORBES: Slurring Natural Gas With Flaming Faucets And Other Propaganda