Help Me Fight Chain-Mail Ignorance!

[Lando_Griffin]

I got this gem from my Grandmother the other day, and I hate getting crap like this. So, I present this to you guys. Feel free to rip it apart. Which of these are just plain BS? If I get enough responses, I’ll email her the real answers.

Guess which of the following are true or false:

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
   morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a bellybutton.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.

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. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6
   years old.

9. The average person over fifty 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 toilets 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 the rest of the day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason an ostrich sticks its head in the sand is to search for
    water.

18. The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning their
    heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19. John Travolta turned 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 crash.

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 reused 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.

ALL THESE STATEMENTS ARE TRUE
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[Innanna]

I knew I had seen this list recently. This might help: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=247019&highlight=tomato

[Scuba_Ben]

Silly me, I was looking for a discussion of medival armor.

I think someone got the same email about a week ago. Check over in GQ.

One point I’m sure of is that South Carolina owns the rights to its own state anthem – or perhaps the anthem is public domain. (Michael Jackson at one point owned the rights to the Beatles’ songs, and he still might own it.)

I remember an old “factoid” that the average person blinks seven times per minute – and there was no evidence for that claim, either. What is certain is that a computer user typically blinks far less often than the average.

[Shodan]

No, they’re not.

There was a thread on this identical e-mail in GQ a few days ago.

Regards,
Shodan

[Bruce_Daddy]

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

What’s our anthem? My google skillz are teh suxxors.

More inportantly, what’s that kid toucher doing with it?

[Lissla_Lissar]

I’m another “I thought this would be about armour” person.

[Lando_Griffin]

@Lissla Lissar

I’m another “I thought this would be about armour” person.

Sorry to dissapoint you. Could I get a mod to close this thread? I didn’t realize it was a duplicate.

[yellowval]

Perhaps the South Carolina state anthem is a Beatles song?