ash-the mythbuster

I just saw this bulletin and decided to check the facts. Heres the bulletin:

Trivial Pursuit

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 toilet s 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 an y 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 turn ed 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 c rash.

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.

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



Now here are the facts:
1.

The Michigan Department of Agriculture used to say on its web site, "Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning. The sugar in apples, and the act of chewing, works better than a cup of coffee for keeping people alert."

But in late November 2006 their Website Administrator contacted Rumor Mill to say they quit saying that.

And this was not to say apples contain caffeine. A page on the Ohio State University Extension Web site goes into more detail.

2.Hitchcock had several opperations in the belly area leading his doctors to sow up the belly butten. But being a mammal, he did have one.

3. ok, sorry, my fellow smokers-this one is true.

4. Also, true.

5.FALSE. DUH.

6.A sneeze itself is really a very brief event, occurring in a shorter time then a heartbeat. Of course, there is the building up to the sneeze (the 'ah' of the 'ah-choo'), but the heart certainly does not stop beating because of this ah-ing. Check your pulse next time to prove this to yourself.

7.From seven to ten percent of any population favors the left hand.

8.According to a 1998 article in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), during a three-year study, there were 914 new dog bite injuries requiring emergency room visits per day. With 1,440 minutes in a day, that's less than one bite per minute.


9.Kneecaps form about the fourth month of fetal life. However, they don't show up on x-ray very well because they're not ossified, or bony. At this point in life, the kneecaps are made of a cartilaginous material. The growth centers surrounding the kneecap form late in developmental life in utero and may not appear until just before or just after the infant is born. Bone growth may continue until the late teens or early twenties.

10. True. And say thank you to china.

11.the average lifespan of the house fly is 10 to 25 days. which is still too long, in my opinion. i HATE flys. *shudders*

12.i don't care. seriously.

13.true.

14.According to a study at Ohio State University in 2005, squinting at a computer screen can cut in half the number of times someone blinks each minute, from an average of 15 blinks per minute to 7.5.

15. Your feet do sweel slightly as you spend longer on them. This is just common sense. The force of gravity causes blood to pool in your lower extremities.

16. ugh. gross. and f*ing true!

17........i'm bored now-if you wanna know the answer to any of the rest just holla