Okay, this is one of those odd “facts” you see every once in awhile (usually in e-mail lists). I immediately wrote this off as a UL months ago when I first heard it. But today a co-worker mentioned it to me.
Since she gets taken in by those types of things pretty easily (I often enlighten her with help from SDMB and Snopes), I asked where she heard it. She claims she heard it years ago. I did the usual search on Snopes and here, and found some close-but-not-quite results. I still think it is a false statement, but can anyone back me up here?