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ladyserenity
03-23-2003, 06:04 PM
These are all True or False:


Sharks do not get cancer.
The Eskimo language has more than 100 words for snow.
Sir Thomas Crapper invented the toilet.
There's a lake in Massachusetts called Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. This is a Native American word that means "You fish on your side; I'll fish on my side; nobody fish in the middle."
Turtles can never die of old age.
Marco Polo introduced ice cream to Europe after he saw it being made in China.
Lemmings commit suicide by hurling themselves, en masse, off cliffs.
Lightning has been known to imprint photographic images of surrounding scenery onto the skin of those who are struck.
Cockroaches can live for up to a month with their heads cut off.
Gravity has a stronger pull at the earth's poles than it does at the equator. As a result, a person who weighs 150 pounds at the equator would weigh almost a pound more if he or she stood at the North Pole.

RoadRunner
04-17-2003, 12:50 AM
Sharks do get cancer. False

Eskimos and snow: false

Crapper and the toilet: false

mass lake: false - made up

turtles: true

marco polo: no idea

lemmings: false

roaches: true

Gravity: true

dreuby
04-17-2003, 01:32 PM
Eskimos: true
Crapper: true (the first commercial water closet, anyway. He's remembered throughout the English-speaking world with cries of "Oh ****!")
Turtles: false
Lemmings: false
Graivity: dunno, but I'm moving to the equator just in case! ;)

PsalmReader's Mom
04-27-2003, 08:00 PM
Is that thing about cockroaches REALLY true?{smash}

dreuby
04-28-2003, 05:29 AM
How about the answers, Ladyserenity?

I hope you got the cockroaches one from an encyclopaedia - you're too nice to have checked it out. At least, I think you are ... but I'm going to be REALLY polite to you, just in case!{yes}