Here are some unusual facts that you can use to prove superiority to
your friends.

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

*Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.

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

*People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot
more.

*When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ...
even your heart. This is why people have always said "God bless you"
after a sneeze.

*Only 7% of the population are lefties.

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

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

*The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

*The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

*The average housefly lives for one month.

*40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. Don't ask how.

*A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

*The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

*Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

*The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head
are the rabbit and the parrot.

*Among the music catalogues that Michael Jackson owns the rights to, is
the South Carolina State anthem.

*In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white
paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

*Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane
just in case there is a crash.

*The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can
for a carburetor.

*Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women
who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.

*Humphrey Bogart and Princess Diana were seventh cousins.

*If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green

According to a 1998 article in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), during a three-year study, there were 914 new dog bite injuries requiring emergency room visits per day. With 1,440 minutes in a day, that’s less than one bite per minute

Hitchcock did have a navel (obviously), it was just removed by surgery later in life.

I question the one about the terlits.

I actually think MORE people are injured than what was stated--LOTS more.

They're dangerous contraptions and can kill you.

It doesn't matter whether I believe any of these is true. To impress friends, simply possess and divulge at appropriate moments information that actually comes from some source which your friend would likely respect. It is up to the source to back up its source. I notice people lose interest in what you have to say if you consistently can't provide some kind of source. Then people just think you pull stuff out of your ass.

What I found to be interesting is that there are more Donkey related deaths than Airplane related deaths per year. Of course it's just a legend.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/donkey.htm

It doesn't matter whether I believe any of these is true. To impress friends, simply possess and divulge at appropriate moments information that actually comes from some source which your friend would likely respect. It is up to the source to back up its source. I notice people lose interest in what you have to say if you consistently can't provide some kind of source. Then people just think you pull stuff out of your ass.
How many people ask you for sources when divulging shrill, trivial "facts" in everyday conversation?

How many people ask you for sources when divulging shrill, trivial "facts" in everyday conversation?
I often ask people for their sources. Other people sometimes ask me, but not very often. I have a habit of asking because I like to have a good idea where so and so gets his/her trivial information from. It is important for me because I will usually remember a fact when I hear it--which means I might use it later--and I'd like to be able to tell the next person the best I could the ultimate source of the information, preferrably not "I heard it from somebody".

The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
This, by the way, shows how important it is that you carry something to read with you at all times. Or a cell phone, a portable video game console, etc. Anything is better than standing in line, doing nothing but grow old.

This, by the way, shows how important it is that you carry something to read with you at all times. Or a cell phone, a portable video game console, etc. Anything is better than standing in line, doing nothing but grow old.
I agree completly :)

I was playing the game Urban Myth the other day and I got a card that read:
"Onions do not have a flavour"
I thought, well... yes they do.
But underneath the statement was (true).
It isn't a myth, which boggles my mind.
How can onions not have a flavor? Unless it's because they have a smell or something.
I don't know. :rolleyes:

There were some other really weird truths and myths.

Like this statement: "Columbus's ships were registered as the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria".

Of course that's what I remember from grade school.
But underneath that statement was (myth).

I don't know about the first one...but I don't think they had a registery in 1492...

Just back from my hollys and flicking thru,tell me someone.If summit is not true,is it still a fact.......................

hmm... if a statement is not true then i guess it could be considered a fact that it isn't! lol

that could go either way.