Rumors/Trivia List - Right or Wrong #002

It's identical to blood plasma, and WAS used in WWII in the Pacific.

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The site makes the point that "[t]here is no organization that keeps track of deaths per year by donkeys." Without this number, how can anyone know?

According to the Diet Food Facts site:

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| 10 Min of This Activity | 125#-174# | 175#-250# | 250#+ |
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| Sleeping                |     10    |     14    |   20  |
| Sitting and Watching TV |     10    |     14    |   18  |
| ...                     |    ...    |    ...    |  ...  |
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However, from the Rumor Mill site:

Then again, if the first site is correct, a heavier person will burn more calories, and may burn more watching TV than sleeping.

Many oak trees start at 20 years old (may only produce only a few acorns), and most don't reach peak production until 40-100 years old. HOWEVER, sometimes they can go 50 years before first production.

While About.com's Inventors site (and others) say this is true, the Rumor Mill site makes a compelling argument that it was NOT the first to HAVE a bar code, but WAS the first SCANNED; The argument being that if there was one item being scanned, there were many, due to the cost of the first few scanners in the world. The gum was just "lucky" to be first, because it just happened to be the first item pulled from the cart

Apparently, back "in the old days" when woodblocks were carved to be used for printing, "distortions" by "unskilled block makers caused the king to lose his moustache" (among other things.) The University of Manchester page has a lot of information about playing cards and their symbolism.

See the SEDS/Uranus site for more on the debate about it's North Pole.

See Professor Seligman's site for more on Retrograde Rotation (and Motion).

It also depends on how you define retrograde (from "above north pole", or based on rotation opposite motion.)

I leave the parenthetical comment for your own interpretation. (Mine is that the commentator "doesn't get any". )

I'm unsure about the "efficiency" of it, but...

BTW: CBSNews Quoted this "fact" as a daily trivia line. (Wonder if they actually researched it? )

Not MOST, but SOME. While not listed, below, if there are dust mites, there are skin cells:

Since there was no actual "Marlboro Company" ... this is automatically WRONG.

The "first owner" of the Phillip (or Philip) Morris Company, one of whose first brands was Marlboro, was Mr. Phillip Morris, Esq., who died in 1873, but there's no mention of his cause of death online, even though "lung cancer" was known at that time.

There were "Marlboro Men" before the cowboys, and even multiple cowboys, but it's assumed that they are the Marlboro Men we're talking about here.
BTW: So did the another MM.

The genealogical relative's site states the trivia, and cites a connection (albeit this is 1600 than the 20th century); And she may have used, as source material, the information from the first site.

In other words, two different biographies of Walt state different views - he was afraid of mice; he wasn't afraid of mice. If the wiki quote is correct, then it's very doubtful, and it DOES bear witness to the biographical sketch quote, above.

YOU make the call.

While "melt" is not the correct term (s/b "dissolve"), all indications are that this is true. Most "jewelry care" sites, as are three (3) of the sources, above, say you should NOT use vinegar to clean pearls, and some state that even skin oil can discolor them.

The Rumor Mill site, where the above is noted as outdated, lists the top three (3) brands as of 07/17/2000 as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and IBM.

According to the World/Global Top Brands PDF, above, 2005's top three (3) brands were Coca Cola, Microsoft and IBM (in that order), with Marlboro at #10, and Budweiser at #26.

HOWEVER, his source (not him) also quotes the "A duck's quack doesn't echo..." (see below)

MY questions are "Why do you want a cow upstairs?" and "Did somebody actually test this hypothesis, and if so, how do they know they didn't just have a 'balky' cow?"

It was also proved a duck's quack echoes on the Discovery Channel :: MythBusters.

They also had to use a sound engineer and high-tech equipment to find it (as did the newspaper columnist in the source, above), but they proved that it does echo.

The above sites proved that flushing the toilet produces an "aerosol effect", spraying water particles all over the bathroom. While keeping the toothbrush further from the toilet (or simply closing the lid) will reduce the amount of "particulate matter" sprayed, it's still gonna get hit!

The Discovery Channel's Mythbusters "proved" this false...

Basically proving that six feet AIN'T GONNA DO IT!.

It's possible there was some cross-contamination by the way they put toothpaste on the brushes and/or from their own teeth (yuck!), so this may be revisited soon.

As for the added comment, as I said, "six feet ain't gonna do it". My guess is almost anywhere in the house (unless you close the lid when flushing AND keep your toothbrush in the medicine cabinet or kitchen) won't, either. (Ok... In the garage, in the hermetically sealed car and glove-box? MAYBE!) And ladies... Doesn't the sight of a used, wet toothbrush on the coffee table, end table or dining-room table just turn you on?

Technically, this is false (and obviously, the commentator, above, was being "political"). Other presidents have the letters, just not the duplicates needed. I didn't look elsewhere, and am not going to go through all the presidents' names to prove this true or false.

BTW: What's YOUR name, and what words can you get out of ITS letters?

Believe it or not!