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Urban Legends : Fact or Fiction
The following poll is about stories we've all heard. Each question requires just a "yes" or "no" response. Can you determine fact from fiction? Answers will be posted on Message Board, Have FUN!
Those who go swimming less than one hour after eating, will suffer severe cramps and drown.
- True
- False
Some cordless phones automatically dial "911" when the batteries run low.
- True
- False
Light bulb manufactured in 1901 has been burning continuously ever since.
- True
- False
Television's "Mister Ed" was a horse.
- True
- False
The Kentucky Fried Chicken chain changed its name to KFC in order to eliminate the word "fried" from it's title.
- True
- False
Blood from KISS band members was mixed with the red ink used to print the first KISS comic book.
- True
- False
Marilyn Manson was Paul Pfeiffer in TV's The Wonder Years.
- True
- False
The Tommy Tutone song Jenny (867-5309) drove the phone companies nuts.
- True
- False
Puff, the Magic Dragon is a song about marijuana.
- True
- False
One of the women in the James Bond film For "Your Eyes Only" used to be a man.
- True
- False
A number of unusual deaths have occurred to the cast of the Poltergeist trilogy of films.
- True
- False
Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
- True
- False
Sylvester Stallone once starred in a porn film.
- True
- False
JELL-O brand gelatin is made from bones and hides.
- True
- False
Dropped food remains germ-free if picked up within five seconds.
- True
- False
The 1989 film Back to the Future II correctly predicted the outcome of the 1997 World Series.
- True
- False
Bill Ripken's 1989 Fleer baseball card includes a hidden obscenity
- True
- False
Disneyland used to deny admission to long-haired male guests.
- True
- False
Tourists who have taken rocks from Hawaiian beaches have returned them in hopes of ending streaks of bad luck.
- True
- False
A special compound added to the water in swimming pools will reveal the presence of urine.
- True
- False
Eelskin wallets demagnetize credit cards due to leftover charges from the electric eels used to make them.
- True
- False
Consumers need to be cautious that water boiled in a microwave oven can suddenly "explode."
- True
- False
Rice thrown at weddings is dangerous to birds.
- True
- False
Opossums hang by their tails in trees.
- True
- False
Multiplying your dog's age by seven will produce its equivalent in human years.
- True
- False
A man has been stranded at a Paris airport for more than a decade.
- True
- False
The winning numbers in a New York state lottery drawing on 11 September 2002 were 9-1-1.
- True
- False
The Bible says that exactly three wise men travelled from afar on camels to visit the infant Jesus as he lay in the manger.
- True
- False
The modern image of Santa Claus was created by Coca-Cola
- True
- False
Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine
- True
- False
A significantly large percentage of U.S. currency bears traces of cocaine.
- True
- False
Gatorade was named for the Florida Gators, the University of Florida's football team
- True
- False