The Brain Waves of Jello?

According to a list of facts so obscure that some of them were made up:

If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult's brain waves.

I've seen this claim before but never a source. What would power those waves? If brain waves can come out of nothing, how would there ever be a flat EEG?

There were other preposterous statements on that list. For example:

If you gave every human on earth an equal portion of dry land (including uninhabitable areas), each person would only have an area equal to six ping pong tables placed together (27.5 square meters).

There are roughly 150 million square kilometers of land on this mudball. That's 150 trillion square meters. If they are divided among 6 billion humans, that comes to 25,000 square meters per human.

There are other criticisms (seen at the Fark discussion board).