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- True – Chickens can live without a head
- False – Lightning never strikes the same place twice
- False – Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth’s rotation
- False – Hair and fingernails continue growing after death
- False – Humans use only 10 percent of their brains
- Semi-True – A dog’s mouth is cleaner than a human’s
- False – There is no gravity in space
- True – A falling cat will always land on its feet
- True – Eating a poppy seed bagel mimics opium use
- True – You get less wet by running in the rain
- False – A penny dropped from the top of a tall building could kill a pedestrian
- False – The five second rule (safe to eat off the ground within 5 seconds)
- False – Adults don’t grow new brain cells
- False – The Great Wall of China is the only manmade structure visible from space
- True – Chicken soup can cure the common cold
- False – Animals can predict natural disasters
- True – Yawning is “contagious”
- False – Seasons are caused by the Earth’s proximity to the sun
- False – Men think about sex every seven seconds
- False – It takes seven years to digest gum