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Old 05-16-2004, 11:37 PM
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Re: True or False?

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

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
False....anyone born has to have had an umbilical cord attached to have survived

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

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
True (my opinion) Germs find it harder to survive in colder weather.....give them a warmer enviroment and they will multiply causing more illness indoors

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

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

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

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
False...Kneecaps form about the fourth month of fetal life. However, they don’t show up on x-ray very well because they’re not ossified, or bony.

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

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
True

11. The average housefly lives for one month.
False....About 2-3 weeks

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
Well i dont know about every year but in 1998, 48,964 Americans were injured by their toilet

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

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

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

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

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
Ostriches do NOT stick their heads in the sand at all

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
False...sheep have a 270 degree range of vision...pigs can also see behind themselves having a 300 degree range of vision.....i'm more than sure there are more animals with this ability

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
True.....He turned down An Officer and a Gentleman which went to Richard Gere.....unsure on 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
True

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

False

24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
False....they use the blood from the cord not the actual cord

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

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

NOTE:any facts not in bold i've yet to determine an answer for
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