Thread: True or false?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

This is General Chat and not so serious, so which of the following do you think are true?

1. Dolphins sleep with one eye open all the time.
2. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
3. The average new-born baby spends 113 minutes a day crying.
4. To find out if a mosquito is male or female, let it land on you. If it bites, its female.
5. Just before you are struck by lightning the hair on your head will stand on end.
6. A python can go for as long as a year without eating.
7. Finland was the first country to have a female member of parliament.
8. People in Iceland are listed by their first names, not their surnames, in telephone directories.
9. If you measure the distance around an elephant's foot and double it, you will know its approximate height.
10. You can generally tell if a person is right-handed or left-handed by which foot they put into their trousers first.

So, whattayourekon?

I reckon the answers are:

1. False
2. False
3. False - according to my mother, when I was a baby, I never cried....unless I was hungry!
4. True.
5. True.
6. True - this one I'm absolutely sure about. (I'm an amateur herpetologist.)
7. True?
8. I'll go with True after reading the above posts.
9. False
10. True.

Now, how many did I get right?

Ernie.

there is no way 5 could be true , lighting does not give you a ring on your mobile to warn you before it strikes

nu 7 cleopatra ??

Still waiting for a correct answer...

all true