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 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 any other time of day.
2006-08-25 09:18:46 · 12 answers · asked by rustybongwater 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
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 turne d 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.
2006-08-25 09:19:30 · update #1
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.
Answers below...
They are all TRUE.
Now go back and think about #23!!!
2006-08-25 09:20:21 · update #2
Interesting trivia
2006-08-25 09:22:08 · answer #1 · answered by fastfrank7 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This will take a while, but I'll guess. The true ones are 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15.
2006-08-29 08:16:04 · answer #2 · answered by scubagurl40 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To add to number 16:
The average person eats 3 spiders a year in their sleep.
2006-08-25 09:24:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not care where you got your information. They are not all true. Your brain does not "stop" when you sneeze. Your heart does not stop it just does not pump blood at the instant you sneeze because of the increased pressure. Your foot size would depend on whether you worked during the day or at night and so on and so on
2006-08-26 11:26:53 · answer #4 · answered by voiceofreason 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I bet South Carolina is proud of that
2006-08-25 09:25:21 · answer #5 · answered by lecter098 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah tipicall case of mixing true and false (c)Satan. i wouldn't b that sure about all of them. here's the list with the statements i'm most skeptik about:
1
2
6
12
15
16
18
20
22
25
and y not
23!http://www.twbookmark.com/books/42/0821228196/chapter_excerpt15892.html
2006-08-25 09:39:40 · answer #6 · answered by James Blond 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one that really gets me is the babies with no kneecaps!
2006-08-25 09:27:12 · answer #7 · answered by KIT-KAT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you saying that children do not have a patella?
2006-08-25 09:23:19 · answer #8 · answered by WendyD1999 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crazy!!!
2006-08-25 09:22:50 · answer #9 · answered by shewolf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they still use a tomato can
2006-08-25 09:20:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋