Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button.
I’ve heard this one. Supposedly he lost it as a result of an appendectomy.
People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more.
I’ve heard the real reason is because children returning to school spread the viruses amongst themselves and then pass them on to their families.
The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
This seems unlikely. This would mean the average 50 year old has spent 10% of his life or over two hours a day standing in line. No way is this true.
The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for
water.
I’ve read that ostriches don’t stick their heads in the sand. This idea started because ostriches lie down in the sand but from a distance people can only see their bodies not their head and neck.
The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their
heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
Chameleons and other reptiles have eyestalks that should allow them to see behind themselves as well.
Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
Probably true. An average person probably is related to hundreds of thousands of people at a 7th cousin level.
If coloring weren’t added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
Maybe a pale yellowish green. The primary flavorings are citrus, vanilla, and cinnamon.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6 years
old.
False. Babies have kneecaps, but they are cartilaginous at birth. Ossification (conversion to bone) starts around age 2 and ends around puberty. (Source: the anatomy/physiology textbook I’m copyediting right now.)
>> 13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
I cannot see how this is surprising or even interesting.
Hangers come in different sizes but 44" is about correct. So?
I’ll give you a more interesting factoid: The average man when confronted with a way-above-average pair of female breasts will look at them an average of 3.2 times before looking away due to the look on the woman’s face. If the breasts include perky, jiggling, nipples the average goes up to 4.3 times.
I believe the spider question is true but ultimately disappointing - referring not to great big house spiders the size of a baby’s fist, but to tiny little spiders, the kind that float through the air on the ends of strands of web, and which you would never consider proper spiders at all unless someone told you.
The kind of spider that doesn’t make you go “GAAAAHH!” in other words.
I believe it’s supposed to be 5 years waiting of any knid, not necessarily in lines. Which makes it a couple of hours a day, which is plausible by the time you’ve added everything from waiting for the lights to turn green through to waiting for the kettle to boil.
And I thought it was Charles and the Queen who never flew together.
Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
Probably not true.
I’ve checked three different sources and they all say the same thing. The official state song, designated by the General Assembly as such on February 11, 1911, is “Carolina” written by Henry Timrod and composed by Anne Custis Burgess.
Given that date, it doesn’t seem anyone would own the rights.
Interestingly, if you put the phrase “South Carolina State Anthem” into google, what you get are several hundred sites and from my limited review, nearly all were factoid pages like the OP.
There is a song “Carolina(I love you)” by Charlie Daniels – I have no idea if MJ might own the rights to that, but it’s not SC state song.
Not to further hijack the thread, but that and every other reference to it I’ve found (including the one in the OP) so far uses the exact same wording, indicating a single source. I’d like to see some more details about this alleged tomato-can carburetor or even a photo or two. I can find nothing but the assertion that one was used, but nothing else. The lack of confirmation on Harley-Davidson’s website furthers my suspicion.
11 seems to be essentially true, estimates for a housefly’s lifespan on several websites range from 2 weeks to about 2 months (including pupal and larval stages). There is probably a massive range of variability in there though and if they are typical of most insects the vast majority of them don’t live long enough to reproduce, thank God.
I assume #1 is referring to the sugar in the apple vs. caffeine alone.
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As a Labor and Delivery RN in the 4th/5th largest birthing center in CA, I have never collected and preserved for transplant an umbilical cord. I have collected cord blood for testing and storage but never a umbilical cord. Most of the cord blood collected is a 6 ml vial for typing and the placenta and cord are sometimes sent to pathology without presevatives, but are usually just red bagged right into the haz mat bin.
