"The folklore is that I ate Pop Rocks, the exploding candies, and I drank a soda and my stomach blew up," he said, recalling a long-ago urban legend. One day in the late 1970s, his mother summoned ...

Make a Mentos-and-Soda Fountain! There is a pretty cool thing you can do with a bottle of soda pop and a packet of Mentos ... Wash your hands after the experiment.