True or false?

bren.1

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WOW!!!

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 bellybutton.

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

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 seven (7) per cent of the population are lefties.

7. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6
years old.

9. The average person over fifty 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 the rest of the 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 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head
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 reused 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

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ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE TRUE.....
 

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Originally posted by bren.1

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
Injured by loos? Oh my goodness!

Eating spiders in sleep??? Now I have to learn how to sleep with my mouth closed!
 

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I can just imagine doing to the ER and sitting on a guerney..

Dr- 'What is your injury?'

Patient - 'I fell off the toilet'

Imagine the reaction the patient would get. I reckon half or more than half of those people would have to have been drunk at the time of the injury!
 

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I don't know why but...I am picturing the toilet seat injuries as mostly little fellows learning how to pee standing up and then having the toilet seat fall down.....ouch....I don't know
I know my 4 year old likes showing off how he can pee with no hands. Well, he can't!

But, I mean, how else can you get injured unless you get your head stuck in the bowl after a night of wayyyyy toooo much drinking. Or bust a tooth smacking your mouth on the side? Or end up with a fat lip? Okay....you'd think I've been there but, honestly,I haven't


Well, I'll be darned, I make up only 7% of the population....I feel soooo alone.
 

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Sorry to get off the riveting toilet discussion, but....

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
Isn't that physically impossible? He wasn't a test tube baby, so he had to be attached via umbilical cord to his mother, right???


Back to our originally scheduled program...
 

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I wondered about that, how can you be born without a belly button?
 

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hmmmm....a mystery, we'll have to call in his sidekick!!!! :LOL:

It doesn't say he was born without one though...it just says he didn't have one so, question is: What happened to it????????
 

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He had it surgically removed?
Or was it cos he was so portly that no one could see it and they assumed that he didnt have one?
 

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I looked it up...

Did Hitchcock have a belly button?
Believe it or not but I get this question all the time. Answer: Hitchcock being a mamal had to be born with a belly button, its just how it is for us mamals. Apparently Hitchcock had several opperations in the belly area leading his doctors to sow up the bb, but I have never read this from a credible printed source. I suspect its an bizarre urban legend.
 

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The kitty army stole his belly button in order to advance kitty science. Mystery solved :tounge2:
 

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*raises eyebrows*

And what exactly would the kitty army do to the belly button?
 

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You see if I tell what it will be used for we'd have to tie you up in yarn to stop you spreading the word.

Belly Buttons are useful for many things.
 

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I have to add my few penny's worth . . . babies don't have kneecaps until between 2 and 6 YEARS old?????

As kids, both me and my brother regularly fell over, and I remember the pain of smacking my knee on the deck (bone under the knee = kneecap = pain). I also remember helping to dress my brother's knee after he did the same. We were both easily under 6 years of age then.

2 and 6 MONTHS maybe . . .

Anatomists and Paediatricians out there please advise!!!
 

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I wondered about that....I am trying to find info about babies knee caps...actually I just remembered I have a forensic anthropology book...

There is a picture of a baby skeleton and when I looked at the knees, none of the epiphyseal bones are fused together yet, so it looks as if they have no kneecaps. That is how a forensic anthropologist would tell the age of the skeleton amongst other things, by the fusion of the bones.
 
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