Mind It!

Can you guess which of the following are true and which are false?

• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. (I don’t see how this could be true.)
• A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
• People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more.
• When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
• Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
• Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
• Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6 years old.
• The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
• The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
• The average housefly lives for one month.
• 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
• A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
• The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
• Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
• Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
• The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
• The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
• John Travolta turned down the starring roles in “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “Tootsie.”
• Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
• In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
• Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
• The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
• Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
• Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
• If coloring weren’t added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
• If someone sends you a email saying you can make lots of money for nothing, then don’t expect to see any.

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They are all true….Now go back and think about #16