Unusual? Yes. Facts? Not so much....
Alfred Hitchcock most certainly was born with a belly button. There are unsubstantiated rumors that subsequent surgeries eventually eliminated it.
>People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
Neither is true. You get sick from viruses, whether indoors or outdoors.
>When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart. This is why people have always said "God bless you" after a sneeze.
No, it isn't. Your heart doesn't stop during a sneeze. The origins of saying "God Bless You" after sneezing are multiple and somewhat overlapping, and date back to times in which people believed a sneeze was 1) a manifestation of an evil spirit exiting the body, 2) a sign of pending affliction with plague, 3) foretelling of good luck (and others...source,
www.snopes.com)
>Only 7% of the population are lefties.
Actually, the figure is about 10% (source, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed)
>Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
Only half true; babies are, indeed, born with kneecaps. They don't typically appear on an X-ray because they have not developed sufficient density (ossification) to show up. The true absence of a kneecap is a medical condition called Nail Patella Syndrome (source, numerous)
>40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
Backwards. One person is sent to the hospital every 40 seconds. (source, Nevada state department of agriculture, referencing US CDC statistics at
http://agri.state.nv.us/Animal2_dog_bite_videos.htm)
>In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
This depends upon what is being sold in the advertisement. If literal milk is being advertised, eg from a dairy, then anything represented to be milk *must* be actual milk. However, if something like cereal or cookies are the actual subject of the advertisement, the "milk" in the bowl (or glass) can be phony as stated. (Source, me. I just happen to know that from reading about advertising, FCC and truth-in-advertising rules).
>Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
Not so. Umbilical cords are generally too large for vein transplants and, for such a purpose, would carry with them a variety of medical risks that render such use a practical impossibility. Most are simply discarded after birth as a waste product. (source, various).
>If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
Untrue. Never been green. (source,
www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp)
-SoonerDave
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Originally Posted by SoonerDave
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