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Candybeatdiscos
17-01-2007, 10:46 PM
Can you guess which of the following are true and which are false?
Answers at the end of the list

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitch**** didn't have a belly button.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!

6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.

7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11 The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.

26. If coloring wasn't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

27. If someone sends you a email saying you can make lots of money for nothing, then don't expect to see any



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They are all true....Now go back and think about #16

Corabar Steve
17-01-2007, 10:52 PM
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!...........

They are all true....

I dispute this, as I have on numerous occasions Sneezed, peed & farted at the same time. :d

BeerFunk
17-01-2007, 11:03 PM
Very interesting.... by the way, I knew about no.1, but it is still heavily disputed by scientists from various groups :argue:

Corabar Entertainment
17-01-2007, 11:06 PM
I dispute this,...but then again you would! :tongue2:

Corabar Steve
18-01-2007, 12:23 AM
...but then again you would! :tongue2:

Yep! http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/ruinkai/evilgrinblack.gif

Danno13
18-01-2007, 10:25 AM
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

This is also untrue. Ostriches don't ever stick their heads in the sand. Just read about it in "The book of general ignorance", but this is taken from wikipedia...


In popular mythology, the ostrich is famous for hiding its head in the sand at the first sign of danger. The Roman writer Pliny the Elder is noted for his descriptions of the ostrich in his Naturalis Historia, where he describes the ostrich and the fact that it hides its head in a bush. There have been no recorded observations of this behavior. A common counter-argument is that a species that displayed this behavior would not likely survive very long. The myth may have resulted from the fact that, from a distance, when ostriches feed they appear to be burying their head in the sand because they deliberately swallow sand and pebbles to help grind up their food. Burying their heads in sand will in fact suffocate the ostrich.

sleah
18-01-2007, 10:53 AM
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.


ONLY IN AMERICA!!!!!!! :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Rock on:

Dragonfly
18-01-2007, 01:02 PM
4. im guessing is true as germs reproduce quicker in warmth hence you turn your heating up and dont go out as much when its cold

Dragonfly
18-01-2007, 01:04 PM
13. stuffed if i can straighten my plastic coat hangers to find out already snapped 4 of them.