TRUE => => A blind girl “saw” the flash of the first atomic bomb test.

TRUE => Consumers need to be cautious that water boiled in a microwave oven can suddenly “explode.”

FALSE => No Nobel Prize is awarded for mathematics because Alfred Nobel’s wife had an affair with a mathematician.

FALSE => A special compound added to the water in swimming pools will reveal the presence of urine.

FALSE => Eelskin wallets demagnetize credit cards due to leftover charges from the electric eels used to make them.

FALSE => Tapping the side of a soda can will prevent its contents from foaming over when you open it.

UNDETERMINED => FAA instructs British train engineers in the proper use of a chicken cannon.

TRUE => Edison promoted the electric chair in an attempt to discredit rival Westinghouse’s plans for alternating current.

FALSE => The number of people alive today is greater than the number of people who have ever died.

FALSE => The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the moon.

FALSE => Psychologist B.F. Skinner’s daughter was traumatized by being raised in a Skinner box and later sued her father.

FALSE => A special property of the equinox allows eggs to be balanced on end that day.

FALSE => The government understates the unemployment rate by counting only people who are receiving unemployment benefits, not all those out of work.

TRUE => => If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, that village would resemble the one described in a popular piece.

FALSE => We use only ten percent of our brains.

UNDETERMINED => More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in commercial airline crashes.

FALSE => The average person swallows eight spiders per year.

FALSE => Hair and fingernails continue to grow after one’s death.

FALSE => Men think about sex every seven seconds.

FALSE => Love Bugs are the result of a genetic experiment gone wrong.*

UNDETERMINED => Your loved one’s cremains can be turned into diamonds.

FALSE => Scientists are predicting that the sun will explode in less than six years.

FALSE => A penny placed on the tracks will derail a train.

FALSE => The planet Mars will make a once-in-our-lifetimes remarkably close approach to Earth on 27 August 2006.

FALSE => The Coriolis force determines which direction water spirals down drains and toilets in different hemispheres.

UNDETERMINED => Unusual geothermic and seismic activity in Yellowstone Park foretells a coming cataclysmic event in the area.

UNDETERMINED => It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.

TRUE => A lightbulb manufactured in 1901 burns bright to this day.

FALSE => When your cell phone has no signal, dialing 112 will connect you with the emergency call center.

FALSE => Leave a window open slightly during a hurricane to equalize pressure.

FALSE => A planet-dissolving dust cloud will wipe out our solar system in 2014.

TRUE => A junior high school student won a science fair by circulating a report about the dangers of ‘dihydrogen monoxide.’

FALSE => A study undertaken by the World Health Organization concluded that natural blondes are likely to be extinct within 200 years.

FALSE => Sneezing seven times in a row is the same as an orgasm.

FALSE => The contents of a few cans of frozen shaving cream will, when thawed, expand to fill an automobile.

FALSE => Water that has been boiled in a microwave oven (then cooled) is harmful to plants.

FALSE => Stars can be viewed during the day from the bottom of a well.

TRUE => Outdoor temperature can be determined by counting the chirps made by crickets.