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True or False

  • 09-06-2007 12:20am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭


    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.

    Answers:
    They are all TRUE!


Comments

  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAAAA
    ****ing HILARIOUS!

    :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,800 ✭✭✭county


    proof please!;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭EricM


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

    Definately NOT true!
    Thats 10% of your life, there are 24 hours in a day, that would mean you spend 2.4 hours waiting in a line every single day of your life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭jacQues


    EricM wrote:
    Definately NOT true!
    Thats 10% of your life, there are 24 hours in a day, that would mean you spend 2.4 hours waiting in a line every single day of your life.
    Maybe he included the nine months waiting to get out? :D

    jacQues
    (hamster getting coat)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Feral Mutant


    neon_glows wrote:
    16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
    Not true http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    boooooooo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Hmmmm....
    Not humour forum material. No real place to move.

    After Hours... No
    CV&P&L... No
    tCN... No

    I'm locking this thread before more people moan about it.

    Neon_glows, facts and other trivia are not for the humour forum.


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