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

2. Alfred Hitchcock did not 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 instead of real 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.

**I bet you'd be surprised at how many AREN'T true***

Peace & Blessings,
Beverly Mahone
Author, Whatever! A Baby Boomer's Journey Into Middle Age
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Probably none aren't true. These are cool Beverly, how did we miss them before?

I was thinking exactly the same, Chatty. All are true. I am just wondering how people are injured by a toilet?

I have never eaten a spider and may never sleep again!

And then again Saundra if we were asleep how would we know, blah!!!

Anno perhaps in a home with males who leave the seat up, sitting down can cause some pain and I imagine even injury. All that and a wet butt too.

I just had to find out about these toilet injuries, so I googled and this is what I found (I should have been able to figure this out on my own).

Toilet seats falling down while boys are using the toilet (ouch)
Small children falling in and drowning (put that seat and cover down)
Yes, chatty, sitting on toilet without seat down
Toilets that collapse under the weight of the person sitting

Be careful girls.

It is said most accidents happen in the home, especially the bathroom. In my life it's the kitchen and usually involves cooking (knives and oven burns).

Saundra, I'm forever getting little burns and slices in the kitchen too. I'll be baking this afternoon. I'm hoping this post will remind me to be careful. I usually end up oicking up a hot baking sheet and burning my fingertips. Or, I bump my hand on the oven rack while squeezing everything in.

Anno, I can't imagine a child drowning in the toilet. I've never heard of that. That's insane.

A child can drown in 2 inches of water. Imagine this, seat up, child climbs up belly first to investigate, slips, head first into toilet, arm at its sides, and face in the bowl...you have a drowning child.
When small ones are around, keep the bathroom doors closed and your eyes on that child. It only takes a split second.

I stoped reading at the eating spiders in sleep bit, selotape my mouth tonight.

oh god i have just imagined that and i never even knew of the danger, of toilets and small kids.

A nurse frend told me how bad ballons are for small kids becouse they chock or sufficat often after they burst....the small pices of rubber

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