11 Things You Might Not Know….

11 Things You Might Not Know:

1. When you are about to sneeze it is not possible to keep your eyes open. –This becomes really inconvenient if you are driving or coming upon a street light not knowing if its about to change.
2. When thinking of #1 if you can…..- try pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth; it is said to stop the sneeze. I can only verify this works 1/2 of the time…but not while driving.
3. When you were a child and while walking down the sidewalk you would say- “if you step on the cracks, you will break your mother’s back” –so of course I skipped over all of the cracks- cause God forbid I would hate to have cracked my mother’s back. My mother’s back is, after all of these years, still in tact.
4. If you have the hiccups, besides the ‘usual’ remedies: try sprinkling salt in the palm of you hand and licking it off OR drink a tablespoon of white vinegar. Works EVERY TIME.
5. Despite what your mother or father said when you were growing up, your eyes WILL NOT stay that way if you keep them cross-eyed for too long;  the worse that will happen is you will get a headache or your vision will be blurry.
6. If you swallow watermelon or apple seeds you will NOT have a plant grow in your stomach. It is just not possible.
7. Contrary to rumors back in the early ’70, child actor, Mikey from the commercial for Life cereal DID NOT die from eating pop rocks (you know that candy that crackled and popped) when put in your mouth. Rumor was he ate those and a carbonated beverage and died. Worse case scenario he could have thrown up.
8.  “My mother and your mother were hanging up clothes, my mother punched your mother, right in the nose….what color blood came out?” this was a popular game when I was just a kid… obviously the answer was red..what other possible color could it be ?.
9. If you swallow your gum, it will not become a ball and live in your stomach for 7 years. This was just a way to keep you, as a kid,  from swallowing it.
10. If you break a mirror, you will have 7 years of bad luck. In my life I have accidentally broken a few, so if that is true I would have 21 years of bad luck….or would they be included if said mirror was broken during the first 7 years of bad luck. Either way any of my back luck is not due to a mirror broken by me.
11. Drinking coffee at any age will not grow hair on your chest OR stunt your growth.

So there you have it- possibly 11 Things you might not have known… what are some things you think other people may not know?