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Did your mother ever tell you “No swimming for at least an hour!” after you ate lunch? Did you hear the one about the kid who ate Pop Rocks after he drank a soda? Thought they were fishy sounding? Check out what we learned: • #1: Chewing gum takes seven years to digest. FALSE. Chewing gum moves along at the same rate as everything else. There have been some strange digestive cases, but only in children under the age of four who swallowed numerous pieces of gum a day over a period of years. • #2: Hair grows back darker and thicker after you shave it. FALSE. If this were true, balding and graying men could just shave their heads and solve the problem! • #3: Don’t swim for at least an hour after eating or you will get cramps and drown! FALSE. Cramps while swimming can happen regardless of whether or not you’ve just eaten – and they usually happen in your arms and legs, not your stomach. If you do get a cramp, stay calm and float until help arrives or the cramp subsides. • #4: Change your shampoo regularly or your hair will build up a resistance to it. FALSE. Your hair doesn’t build up a resistance to shampoo. If you are noticing a difference, test your water. It could be too hard or soft. • #5: Brushing your hair 100 strokes before bedtime will make it shinier and healthier. FALSE. Brushing too much, too hard or with the wrong brush can cause damage to your hair or your scalp. • #6: Wearing a hat too much will make you go bald. FALSE. Hair loss is caused by genetics, stress and poor health, not your hat. • #7: Here are some useful tips to remove a tick: Touch it with a lit match, rub it with a cotton swab covered in liquid soap, turn the page for more!
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URBAN LEGENDS (continued): twist it off, etc. FALSE. The best way to remove a tick is to grab it by the head with a pair tweezers and pull it straight out. Don’t forget to clean with soap and water and treat with an antibiotic ointment. • #8: Coca-Cola products originally contained cocaine. TRUE. Coca-Cola did once contain trace amounts of cocaine, but Coca-Cola products with cocaine were no longer produced after the 1930s. • #9: A tooth or nail left in Coca-Cola will disintegrate over night. FALSE. While not true, anything containing too many sugars, like sodas, can weaken the enamel of your teeth over time. Remember to limit your sugary food and beverage intake and brush your teeth daily. • #10: If you eat Pop Rocks and drink a soda, your stomach will swell and possibly explode. FALSE. Pop Rocks generate less gas than half of one can of soda. In the absolute worstcase scenario, you will end up with a nice, healthy burp. • # 11: Dropped food is okay to eat if you pick it up within five seconds. FALSE. Once it’s been dropped, it’s been dropped. Anything that is dropped on the floor will pick up just as many germs in that first tenth of a second as it does after five. • #12: The playground ball pits at fast food restaurants are home to venomous snakes and drug paraphernalia. FALSE. There has never been any report of injury or death in a playground ball pit due to snakes, drug needles, etc. If either story were true, they would have garnered intense media coverage. • #13: Rice is bad for birds. You shouldn’t throw it at a wedding. FALSE. A bird could just as soon eat rice in a field as it could on a sidewalk after a wedding. Their little bird tummies will not swell or explode. • #14: Please forward this email to all your friends and family! It is being tracked. For every forward, a well known corporation will donate five cents towards cancer research. FALSE.
It’s virtually impossible to track an email from forwarding alone. This goes the same for most email chain letters. If you are ever unsure about an email, visit snopes.com, a website dedicated to researching hoaxes and urban legends. • #15: If everyone boycotted gas stations on the same day, it would drive the price of gas down. FALSE. To make a substantial dent in the price of gas, large numbers of people would have to not buy gas for an extended period of time. • #16: JELL-O is made from cow hooves. TRUE & FALSE. JELL-O isn’t made from cow hooves, but it is made from gelatin, a product made from the collagen of cows and pigs. Collagen is collected from bones and skins by an extensive process that releases the collagen from the bones, which is then used to make gelatin. • #17: Eating carrots can improve your vision. FALSE. While carrots do contain Vitamin A, which helps maintain healthy eyesight, eating a lot of carrots will not improve your vision. • #18: Eating turkey will make you fall asleep. TRUE & FALSE. Turkey does contain the amino acid tryptophan, which helps the body produce a chemical that plays a key role in sleep. However, it is produced in such small amounts that eating
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URBAN LEGENDS (continued): turkey isn’t going to make you feel sleepy. When you do get tired after the Thanksgiving meal, that sleepy feeling is more likely caused by the combined efforts of a heavy meal full of carbohydrates and your digestive system working in high gear. • #19: Ice cubes made with hot water will freeze faster than ice cubes made with cold water. FALSE. A tray of hot water and a tray of cold water will freeze into ice cubes in the same amount of time. • #20: Cooking metal objects in the microwave will cause your microwave to explode. FALSE. While it won’t explode, you will severely shorten the lifespan of your microwave and probably null the warranty, so don’t try this at home. • #21: Kentucky Fried Chicken was forced to change their name to KFC because they use genetically modified “chickens” that aren’t considered to be real chickens by the FDA. FALSE. KFC changed its name for multiple reasons and mostly because of this: they had started serving more than just fried chicken and didn’t want to be labeled as only serving such. They do not have an army of genetically modified chickens. • #22: Domesticated turkeys are so stupid that they will look up at the rain and drown. FALSE. A turkey’s basic instinct is to huddle to its mother for shelter in the rain. A domesticated turkey, often without a mother, still has this instinct and will not know to get out of the rain, which can lead to death from exposure to the elements. The End
side of Heaven is perfect. We’d see a lot of job losses if the Fair Tax system were put in place. Tax preparation services and things like that would simply cease to exist, but it would also take a lot of the politics and special interest garbage out of the system. Some people want you to think that Fair Tax supporters are against taxes or government in any form, and that’s just not true. The rallies that have been held lately were made up largely of people who are against government waste, deficit spending and debt. In part, (that tax isn’t fair) the income tax is designed to motivate people to do certain things the federal government wants them to Dear Dave, What exactly is the Fair Tax, and how is it different than do, and the rallies are also against the idea of making government the big daddy with answers to everyone’s the system we currently have in place? Evan problems. - Dave Dear Evan, The basic premise of the Fair Tax is that it’s immoral to (stop the allowance to beat debt?) tax someone’s income. If you work and make money, that money should be all yours. That may be a shocking statement in today’s socio-political climate, but I Dear Dave, think it’s a reasonable statement. For all intents and We’re trying very hard to get out of debt. We were purposes, the Fair Tax is basically a sales tax. People wondering if it would be a good idea to put giving our would only pay taxes on items they buy, except for kids an allowance on hold until we get everything paid food, basic clothing, and other kinds of necessities. off. Erin This system would do away with the IRS, its massive Dear Erin, mountain of regulations, and its thousands of employees. It would also eliminate the need for the 401(k) Don’t stop giving them money! What you’re doing can and Roth IRAs, because you could just save your own be a great lesson for your children. But you definitely should stop calling it an allowance. In my mind, there’s money. The argument against the sales tax is that it’s regres- a lot of victim mentality attached to that word. You’re sive. This means it’s more of a burden on poor people, not “allowing” anything, you’re rewarding success! because they would pay a higher percentage of their Kids should learn at an early age that money is conoverall income. But there’s a valid counter-argument. nected to work. Even a kid who’s in kindergarten is old As I make more money, I also save more, give more enough to begin doing some age-appropriate chores and spend more. And if I spend more under the Fair around the house. Tax system, then I’m actually paying much more in We did this kind of thing in our home, with all of our kids, but we called it a commission. If they did their taxes! More than anything, proponents of the Fair Tax are say- jobs, they got paid. If they didn’t, they didn’t get any ing that our current method of taxation is wrong. They money. It didn’t take long for them to make the conalso believe that as much money, if not more, could be nection! - Dave raised with a properly-implemented national sales tax as with an income tax. Keep in mind that nothing this * For more great financial advice, please visit www.davesays.org.
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