How many of these do you think are either True or False? 32 Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know 1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel. 2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. 3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. 4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. 6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. 7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2". 8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch). 9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....) 10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. 11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. 13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver. 14. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before. 15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??) 17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. 18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." 19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola. 22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet. 23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. 24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. 26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." 28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing! 29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries. 31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. 32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
5. So that's where the idea for Pon Farr came from. 6. Is not true. 13. And "month" 16. I somehow doubt that, considering nothing else on a scorpions exterior affects it. Not even pesticides. 20. Is a particularly pervasive urban legend, but not true. It actually originates from how deep to plant several kinds of food crop seeds. 26. Is Not true. Cutting an onion underwater will work, however. 27. Data, as Sherlock Holmes, did.
True. The character Wendy was based on a real young girl who was friendly with J M Barrie. The girl couldnt pronounce 'friend' properly and called Barrie her 'fwendy'. Barrie just removed the f
Why do you say that? #24 is so close to true that it might as well be. Each stalk of celery only contains 6 Calories (kilocalories for Europeans) that are extractable by the human digestive system The beauty in celery is that you gain almost nothing from it food wise, yet it's fiber content makes you feel full. Therefore celery takes the place of something else that you might have otherwise eaten that has a high caloric content.
I mean as in the whole molecule, without it breaking down into starch and sugar. Not that I really know what that would be useful for... hmm...
Still means that it actually contains calories... Funny, I loathe celery in a salad, but I love it in soups and stews...
This is a pedantic distinction that doesn't invalidate the original claim. Even Snopes calls this one "True".
Well then Snopes is wrong. It might be right to say that it is a very healthy thing to eat because it contains few calories for the amount of mass, however the "negative calories" part is clearly untrue.
How is it clearly untrue? It has six digestable calories per stalk, and it takes about 5 to 7 calories per stalk to digest.
