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I am making no claims to the accuracy of this test - I received it in my mail today, and have not personally researched the validity of the answers.
It's for fun only. There are no prizes for the smart-arses in the audience.
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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 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 carburettor.
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.
From: Scatland | Registered: Sep 2003
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From: Boston | Registered: Aug 2003
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Well, #8 is kinda iffy. Babies are born with kneecaps but they don't become hard enough to show up on x-rays as bones until they are three or so.
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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I bet the e-mail says all the answers are true, although some of them are certainly commonly held beliefs that aren't true. Also some depend on the definition. The Egyptians for example were using twigs as toothbrushes with a kind of paste made from charcoal or soot thousands of years ago so it depends on how you define a toothbrush really.
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From: Manchester, UK | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Actually they are all true. So what's my prize?
Correct - or at least that's what is claimed.
As for a prize - there ain't one. Maybe you would like to be known as Mr. Smart-arse for a while?
Not too convinced about a few, personally. Looked up a few sights about ostriches, and found that they all put forward hypotheses about why the 'head in sand' myth came about, but they certainly didn't all agree - clearing stones for nests, eating stones to grind up food in their stomachs, etc. But none of them mentioned looking for water.
So, I wonder how much of the rest of this is pure hog-wash. Or regurgitated rumour.
quote:Originally posted by Bevis: I bet the e-mail says all the answers are true, although some of them are certainly commonly held beliefs that aren't true. Also some depend on the definition. The Egyptians for example were using twigs as toothbrushes with a kind of paste made from charcoal or soot thousands of years ago so it depends on how you define a toothbrush really.
Spot on with the e-mail saying they're all true.
Don't know if I'd consider putting a soot covered stick in my mouth the same as a toothbrush and Colgate though.
From: Scatland | Registered: Sep 2003
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The ostrich one is certainly untrue, since they don't stick their head in teh sand, and the one about Hitchcock not having a belly button is also an urban myth (since it would be impossible not to have one). It may have been hard to see, but he had one. The one about the parrot and the rabbit being the onyl animals to be able to see behind themselves is also false since most herbivore animal and birds have almost 360 degree vision (accepting that most also have blind spots right in front and right behind their heads). Technically a chameleon can also see behind themselves without turning their heads but I think the swivelly eyes thing is a cheat in that context.
I'm also very sceptical about the blinking seven times a minute thing as well. It might be true but I think I blink a lot more frequently than that and I doubt my blinking is anything out of the ordinary.
Some of them are definately true though, like the fact that Charles and William (and the Queen in fact) never travel together.
An extra one to add to them though is that Shrub and Blair are distantly related as well.
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From: Manchester, UK | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Actually they are all true. So what's my prize?
Correct - or at least that's what is claimed.
As for a prize - there ain't one. Maybe you would like to be known as Mr. Smart-arse for a while?
Not too convinced about a few, personally. Looked up a few sights about ostriches, and found that they all put forward hypotheses about why the 'head in sand' myth came about, but they certainly didn't all agree - clearing stones for nests, eating stones to grind up food in their stomachs, etc. But none of them mentioned looking for water.
So, I wonder how much of the rest of this is pure hog-wash. Or regurgitated rumour.
Sorry.
Hey, maybe Legion World could make up a "no-prize" commendation like Marvel does
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