True or False?

[Elaine]

This is interesting! Can you guess which of the following are true and
which are false?
(Answers are below)

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





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

[Mags]

I said 14 were false ......including No. 16!!!! I didn't really want to know that one, Elaine !.....

Very interesting though ......remind me to ask Eileen to explain the answer to No. 14 to me!!

[Jane]

I thought most of them were true..thought a few were false though oh and I knew 16 :P

[Elaine]

Originally Posted by Jane

I thought most of them were true..thought a few were false though oh and I knew 16 :P

smarty pants

[dandysmom]

Missed this one, just caught it! Had the horrors at #16!!! Mags, I don't know anything at all about blinking while on the computer......#14...??? And I never knew anyone didn't have a bellybutton? Was Hitchcock really an alien ..

[Erin]

Im going to sleep with my mouth taped together from now on