The Urban Legends Test

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2. Welcome to the Urban Legends Test!

   Urban legends are spread far and wide, particularly now with compelling and/or humorous e-mail, when a story of interesting events (like a cat getting stuck in a garbage disposal) travels halfway around the world before the truth can get it's pants on. But, some of those urban legends have some truth to them, which is why they can be so compelling, you just never know.

   Originally it was thought that the platypus didn't exist, even when presented with a dead one. Today most people haven't heard of the only other monotreme (that I'm aware of) related to the platypus: the echidna pictured here.

   Anyway! Can you tell fact from fiction?

   Let's see shall we?

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   A duck's quack doesn't echo.

   Everyone's heard that! True!

   Every sound can echo, False!

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   The word "Pommy" or "pom", a slang term for a British person, comes from the acronym POHM, which was used to designate a "Prisoner of His Majesty."

   True

   False

5. 3

   You shouldn't throw rice at weddings because it's dangerous to birds.

   Yes, that's true.

   Of course it's not dangerous to birds, it isn't poison.

6. 4

   Eating turkey makes you particularly tired.

   Yes it does! Evil tryptophan...

   Not any more than anything else.

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   The presidential practice of pardoning a live turkey before Thanksgiving originated with President Harry Truman in 1947.

   Cool, yes, I agree with that statement.

   No, Truman didn't even like turkeys! Or..did he? Well it's not true anyway.

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