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superplough
June 8th, 2007, 03:14 PM
Interesting email I just got

Trivial Pursuit - True or False?

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.

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

Kali-chan
June 8th, 2007, 03:42 PM
#16 = gross

sasami-riyo
June 8th, 2007, 04:09 PM
Heh, South Carolina must be proud to have their anthem owned by a pedo...

Soluzar
June 8th, 2007, 04:20 PM
#5 scares me. I get hay fever pretty bad.

Lord Timaeus
June 8th, 2007, 04:20 PM
In before Snopes.

Samurai Drifter
June 8th, 2007, 04:51 PM
Actually, about 10% of the population is left handed. And I knew about #16... in fact, many scientists believe no one is ever more than 5 feet from a spider.

CrossboneGundam
June 8th, 2007, 05:31 PM
A lot of these are flat out wrong.

Toothbrushes were used in numerous ancient civilizations, kneecaps don't take 6 years to appear, I've never even heard anyone suggest rabbits or parrots could see backwards without turning their heads. I've seen rabbits and parrots turn their heads to look backwards, though.

Evil_Koala
June 8th, 2007, 06:04 PM
They used sticks...no bristles. And it takes from 4 to 6 years for kneecaps to fully develop. I was a bit confused about the rabbit/parrot one too though.

Animematt55
June 8th, 2007, 06:27 PM
A lot of these are flat out wrong.

Toothbrushes were used in numerous ancient civilizations, kneecaps don't take 6 years to appear, I've never even heard anyone suggest rabbits or parrots could see backwards without turning their heads. I've seen rabbits and parrots turn their heads to look backwards, though.

sources please?
I have never heard anyone say rabbits and parrots COULDN'T see backwards either. I mean, i am sure they have a blindspot or two, But I am sure they can see somethign a lot better when looking straight at it.