True Or False

[martymas]

Can you guess which of the following are true and which are false?

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

2. Alfred Hitchcock 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.

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

See answers below:

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They are all true....Now go back and think about #16. Sorry you had to hear about #1

[isteve]

I kind of guessed they were going to be all true about halfway. And I once woke up with a spider crawling on my lips. Had forgot about that...until now.

[martymas]

funny thing you mention a spider on your lips

here in nz

earwigs are a menace

and have been known to crawl in your ears and up your nose

i get paranoid when i see them

marty

[irregularjoe]

funny thing you mention a spider on your lips

here in nz

earwigs are a menace

and have been known to crawl in your ears and up your nose

i get paranoid when i see them

marty

I just called the exterminator.

[JDoors]

... here in nz earwigs are a menace ...

[shudder]

Had one take up residence in my mailbox for a few days. I was very leery of retrieving the mail: Open the door and the thing would start running around. Apparently they're faster than the speed of light!

(No, I can't bear to kill bugs, if I can avoid it at all -- I knew there's no food supply in the mailbox and it would leave of its own accord -- eventually.)

[irregularjoe]

"No, I can't bear to kill bugs, if I can avoid it at all -- I knew there's no food supply in the mailbox and it would leave of its own accord -- eventually"

either that or hitch a ride with the mail carrier

[JDoors]

either that or hitch a ride with the mail carrier

I'm such a worry-wart, I actually thought about "taking care of" the bug 'cause I thought it was unfair to the mailman to have to see that bug day after day.

Then I thought, he's a big man, he can take care of himself!

Never really thought about it before but I imagine mailmen ... err ... mail delivery people, have to deal with spiders and bugs all the time (or worse).

[Naming is hard]

http://www.brownreclusespider.org/eating-s...hile-asleep.htm

[JDoors]

The Brown Recluse and Black Widows are the ONLY creatures in these parts that we're likely to come across that can cause serious harm (unless you're allergic to bees and such). No poisonous snakes, no scorpions, no killer bees, no fire ants, nothing. Much further North you might have brown bears, but they're not known to be killers. One of the major reasons I've never considered moving elsewhere!