Adam's Apple
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- Apr 25, 2004
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Received this in an e-mail. Haven't googled to check if it's factual. I will leave that to the sleuths on the board. Enjoy the read.
True or False
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
3. People do not get sick from cold weather; they get sick from being indoors a lot more.
4. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
5. Only 7% of the population are lefties.
6. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
7. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until after the cartilage they are born with develops into actual kneecaps.
8. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
9. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
10. The average housefly lives for one month.
11. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
12. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
13. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
14. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
15. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
16. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
17. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
18. In most milk commercials on television, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used for the milk.
19. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, in case there is a crash.
20. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
21. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women
who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
22. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
23. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
Answers below...
They are all TRUE.
True or False
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
3. People do not get sick from cold weather; they get sick from being indoors a lot more.
4. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
5. Only 7% of the population are lefties.
6. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
7. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until after the cartilage they are born with develops into actual kneecaps.
8. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
9. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
10. The average housefly lives for one month.
11. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
12. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
13. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
14. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
15. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
16. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
17. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
18. In most milk commercials on television, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used for the milk.
19. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, in case there is a crash.
20. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
21. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women
who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
22. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
23. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
Answers below...
They are all TRUE.
