†• Urban Legends - Truths •†

Animals -
Rats don't vomit
Dogs can vomit at will, they don't eat grass to make themselves vomit

Cars -
A complicated Honda Accord commercial required 606 takes to get right and was achieved without the use of computer-generated images.
Cars have been stolen by thieves who wrote down VINs and used them to obtain duplicate keys through auto dealerships.
Motorist caught speeding by photo radar pays fine with picture of money; police send him photo of handcuffs in return.
A man got a license plate by a bit of an accident called "NO PLATE" and received dozens of parking tickets. When police officers write tickets and there is no license plate they just write "NO PLATE" so this man was getting all the "NO PLATE" tickets.
The man who penned the first traffic laws never drove a car himself.
Florida motorists can block the DMV from disclosing their motor vehicle and driver license records.

College/School -
Students at a religious institute enrolled in a class of the life of Jesus. They arrived at their class to take a final exam and found a note that informed them that they would be taking the exam in a different class on the other side of campus. On the way there was a homeless man asking for help. None of them stoped to help the man, in a hurry to arrive in time of the exam. The instructor was waiting, when they entered they found that the beggar was an actor planted by the instuctor that was to test them. Since none of the student demonstrated that they had learned anything by studying the life of Jesus they all failed the test.

A student arrived late for math class and found two problems written on the chalkboard. Assuming they're homework problems, he jots them down in his notebook and works on the equations over the next few days before turning his solutions in to the instructor. Several weeks later, the professor turns up at the student's door with the student's work written up for publication. The two problems were not a homework assignment; they were problems previously thought to be unsolvable that the instructor had used as examples in his lecture that day.

Celebrities -
The phrase: "In like Flynn" is referring to Errol Flynn's acquittal on statutory rape charges.
Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Charlie Chaplin's remains were stolen and held for ransom.

Snuff Films -
No American law enforcement agency has ever found an actual "snuff" film.

Disney -
Disney parks are riddled with secret tunnels and surveillance equipment.
There is a secret "Club 33" serving hard liquor, in New Orleans Square, Disneyland.
Science Fiction author Harlan Ellison was fired his first day on the job at Disney Studios for making jokes about a Disney porn film that should be made.
During the filming of the 1958 Disney nature documentary White Wilderness, the film crew induced lemmings into jumping off a cliff and into the sea in order to document their supposedly suicidal behavior.
As if killing Old Yeller and Bambi's mom wasn't a good enough reason for me to hate them.
Disneyland's dress code used to exclude men with long hair from the park.
The photographic image of a topless woman can be spotted in the background of The Rescuers.
Disney produced an animated film called The Story of Menstruation.

Drugs -
In a 1989 experiment by Miami toxicologist Dr. William Hearn, who gathered 135 dollar bills from banks in twelve cities. 131 had traces of cocaine.
The drug Premarin is made from pregnant horse urine.

Government & the Law -
Many CIA and other government agencies' snackbars are staffed by blind people to help maintain secrecy and security.
There are traffic lights with green on top in a few US Irish neighborhoods.
Some animal shelters have prohibited the adoption of cats during Halloween to avoid cruelty by "Satanists."
The state of Kanses has outlawed the teaching of evolution because God told them to.

The Military -
In the training program for Green Beret medical specialists, trainees are isseud a goat which they are ordered to wound, then repair several times during the course. After graduation, the students and staff have a big barbecue.
In a combat unit, the newest, lowest ranking soldier is assigned to use the mine-detection equipment because if he gets blown up, the unit doesn't lose an experienced soldier.
A soldier can be brought up on charges of negegience and damage to goverment property if he or she gets a bad sunburn or a venerial disease.
Up until tye 1970s, the Army issued condoms to soldiers going on field exercises. Not for 'protection purposes' but as an inexpensive, disposable cover for rifle muzzles. They were very effective and in an emergency, you could shoot through them.

Products -
The Pepsi slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi generation" was translated in Taiwan to mean "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead."
BMW's Middle-East website's maps don't recognize Israel.
The Coca-Cola corporation sends people around the country ordering "Coke" at restaurants. If it isn't real Coke they send the restaurant a letter reminding them that "Coke" refers to soft drinks made by Coca-Cola, not Pepsi or anyone else.
Graham Crackers were originally intended to suppress sexual appetites.
Two Marlboro Men have died of lung cancer.
McDonald's is importing "lean-beef" to subsidize it's American beef suppliers, despite the risk of Mad-Cow disease.
Most mass-market beers contain "foaming agents" to make them form a head.
Woman removes label from "tuna" can, finds cat food label underneath. The cat food actually was tuna canned 6 years earlier in Canada, declared unfit for human consumption, allowed to be exported as pet food, and then illegally relabeled as tuna again. (Toronto Star, March 24, 1992)
Baush & Lomb markets the same soft contact lenses under different brand names, at different prices, and with different recommended wearing times
Airplane manufacturers have a gun that fires dead chickens to test planes' windshields.
Starbucks sold cases of water to emergency services for $130 during the WTC collapse.
Starbucks pulled a poster that had two cups and a mosquito flying toward them because it was reminiscent of the WTC attacks.

Sex - A couple had oral sex, then sex and then started smoking on a U.K. train. The crew ignored complaints until they started smoking.

The Body in the Bed - A man and his wife were vacationing in Las Vegas and as they arrived in their room they found it was filled with an overpowering stench. They called the front desk to complain, and headed for the casinos for some late-night gambling while the problem was taken care of. When they returned to the room, the stench was replaced with the strong smell of chemical cleaners and deodorizers, annoyed but satisfied that it was better than before they went to bed. Early in the morning the smell had returned so strongly that it awakened them, the man called the manager and angrily demanded another room immediately. While his wife packed up their stuff the man ripped the sheets off the bed, where the smell seemed to be coming from. He found that the mattress had been cut open and a well-dressed corpse had been shoved inside. The couple were given a complimentary suite and free passes to the shows.

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