YES OR B.S.

Oprah and Steadman have been dating for 37 years! (B.S. - only 32)

In space, you cannot cry tears. (Yes - no gravity)

The inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison, was afraid of the dark (Yes)

The letter T is the most common consonant in the English Language (BS - It's R)

There is no word that rhymes with Orange (Yes)

A duck's quack will not echo (Yes)

The average length of a marriage that ends in divorce in America is 12 years. (BS - 8 years)11

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit (Yes - and so is our news guy!)

Women can see better than men, but men hear better. (BS - the other way around!)

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury (Yes)

The words "Poor" and "poverty" appear 446 times in 384 separate verses in the Bible (Yes - and almost all of them make some reference to taking care of the poor)

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team (Yes)

Britney Spears holds the record for shortest celebrity marriage! (Yes - 55 hours to Jason Alexander before it was annulled. And NO - he was a friend of hers - not THAT Jason Alexander)

Ben Franklin's formal education ended at ten years old (Yes)

Donald Trump played basketball in college? (BS)

Bill Gates is the richest person in America. (BS - It's Jeff Bezos now)

Abraham Lincoln was the only president in U.S. history to make his own clothes. (B.S., it was Andrew Johnson)

Only 50 copies of "Moby Dick" were sold during author Herman Melville's entire lifetime. (Yes)

In a recent survey 50% of people polled said if they could travel back in time they would save JFK. (B.S., they would cheat the lottery!)

There are 310 counties in the state of Texas. (B.S., there are only 254)

Donut holes were invented in 1847 by Hanson Crockett. (Yes)

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Eleanor Rigby. (B.S., it was Thelma Pickles)

The average person falls asleep in 13 minutes. (B.S., it's seven minutes)

Cats are more likely to have a nervous breakdown than any other non-human animal. (B.S., actually dogs are)

Albert Einstein's brain is in a mason jar in a Wichita, Kansas, laboratory. (Yes)

The average American eats about 50 pounds of lettuce each year. (B.S., we eat just over 27 pounds)

Most people know Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. But did you know his real middle name is Delbert. (B.S., it's Kenneth)

The bullseye is worth 50 points on a dart board. (Yes)

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