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Lisa
01-15-04, 09:35 PM
Can you guess which of the following are true or false?



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



2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton. (how would this be possible?)



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



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. 40 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 fifty 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. (Put the seat down when you're done dammit!)



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



14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute. (you are being mesmerised as we speak)



15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.



16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep. (yuck!)



17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water. (wouldn't they have better luck looking in a stream?)



18. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.



19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie." (I can't picture him in a dress)



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. (YUM)



22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash. (sounds like a lonely flight)



23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor. (And a soup can for a muffler)



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



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



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









ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE SUPOSEDLY TRUE!

sapphire_moon
01-15-04, 09:46 PM
17 and 26 aren't real.

The umbilical cord actually contains blood veins that can be very vital to your baby if something goes wrong (I can't remember what it is called, but there is an illness and the blood in umbilical cords can help them)

BoidKeeper
01-15-04, 09:49 PM
I was going to say they were all true.
Cheers,
Trevor

Lisa
01-15-04, 09:53 PM
To be honest i'm skeptical about some of the numbers as they've probably changed since writing.

scalawag
01-15-04, 09:58 PM
I know the placenta is sold for profit.

SaIiLdVaEnR
01-15-04, 10:01 PM
I know that is extremely nasty.

Removed_2815
01-15-04, 10:02 PM
18. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
Ha! I am sure we can think of another animal that can do this..... (hint: zygodactylic, prehensile tail....)
Cheers,
R

sapphire_moon
01-15-04, 10:17 PM
I didn't even see that one (number 18)

Vanan
01-15-04, 10:23 PM
Hehe! After looking up zygodactylic first :D, I do know now what you're talking about Ryan! Guess noone's thinking about independantly moveable eyes. ;)

Neo
01-16-04, 12:27 AM
how can someone not have a belly button???

Linds
01-16-04, 02:44 AM
Ostriches don't stick their heads in the sand for any reasons... all mammals have to have a bellybutton, you cannot have been created and carried without a placenta... from what I understand, the milk moustache is created from other thick/ened foods (not paint)... I'm fairly certain more than just the rabbit and parrot can see behind themselves...

MistyDaze
01-16-04, 04:57 AM
Hmmm, I'm pretty sure my kids had kneecaps when they were born.

Syco
01-16-04, 08:26 AM
Actually the kneecaps thing is true.:)

Removed_2815
01-16-04, 08:41 AM
Yup, the kneecap (patella) thing is true! Also, babies do not have all of their carpal bones when they are bone and there are many gaps (fontanels) in their skull where bone has not yet grown and fused together.
The milk thing is also true; however, the thinned white paint is used for the shots where it's flowing and cascading all over the place, they likely use something else for the "moustache" shots. Also, I once saw a bit on TV on how they prepare frozen turkey's for TV commercials. They showed that they only "spot" cook one part with a hair-dryer (that's the part they show being cut into), and they paint the rest of the turkey with an orange/brownish looking wood stain to give the appearance that it just came out of the oven.....mmmm.....
Cheers,
R

Soul_Reaper
01-16-04, 11:14 AM
I think that most of them are true...except for the A. Hitchcock thing. How the hell can you not have a belly button? I don't buy that one...

reverendsterlin
01-16-04, 11:35 AM
I would figure an umbilical cord would not 'have' to connect to the belly, whereever if did connect would still create access to the circulatory system and leave a scar at the location. as far as animals that can see behind themselves, I supposed it would have to depend on how you defined behind, if limited to 180 degrees from front center or anything beyond 90 degrees from front center.

Removed_2815
01-16-04, 12:30 PM
Check out this link (http://www.dcmsoft.com/rumor/story/otherbs1.htm), it validates or invalidates about 6 of the "truths".
Cheers,
R

corr
01-16-04, 03:39 PM
I know someone who doesn't have a belly button. It's from surgery though. He was born with one but doesn't have it now.

Invictus
01-16-04, 04:22 PM
Good thing I don't believe everything I read. I've seen a million lists like this, and most of them contain just enough real info to be credible,but at least half are bull**t.

Sunrunner
01-16-04, 07:20 PM
OK heres my 2 cents on why it might be true ... I was just watching a medical show about a lady in Africa that had an ultrasound of her baby when she was aprox 8 months along. They found that the baby was living outside the womb attached to the liver for the blood supply needed. There was no ambilical cord there at all I think that she was attached in and around the shoulder area so that might explain it. She was born by c section a healthy 6. something pounds. This is only happeneds 2 or 3 times a year around the world they were explaining.

Hope that helps a little Ill try to find it somewhere in the net for ya all it was pretty cool :)

Syco
01-16-04, 10:09 PM
I checked out some things on the missing Hitchcock belly button, it seems that he was born with one but due to many surgeries it was just sewn up. :)

Removed_2815
01-16-04, 10:18 PM
Originally posted by Syco
I checked out some things on the missing Hitchcock belly button, it seems that he was born with one but due to many surgeries it was just sewn up. :)
Yup, that's in the above link.
Cheers,
R

Dozer
01-17-04, 12:28 AM
First one is true about the apples!!!

Dozer
01-17-04, 12:36 AM
Owls can see behind themselves too...

Removed_2815
01-17-04, 01:50 AM
Originally posted by Dozer
Owls can see behind themselves too...
Yeah, but they have to turn their head...
R