Myth: Busted!

Myth:
1) Does an ice bullet fired by a second gunman could've killed JFK?
It couldn't even kill a fly. An ice bullet is so fragile, that it could not withstand the high force present in a high powered rifle needed to propel it that far. What it will do is shatter and make one hell of a noise. BUSTED!

2) Will dropping a lit cigarette into the toilet bowl explode when you're doing your..."business"?
No of course not. Even if your fart is 100% ammonia or flammable gas, it still will not ignite and blow you off the toilet. At most you'll get burnt down at the you know where. BUSTED!

3) Running through rain will keep you drier.
Running through the rain won't keep you dry. However, walking does. This only applicable for a certain distance, beyond which, it doesn't matter whether you walk or run, you'll be one wet cat. BUSTED!

4) Using mobile phones at petrol station will blow you sky high.
This is one myth that has taken a life of its own and even circulated by, of all people, the government! The electromagnetic radiation given off by the mobile phone does not contain enough energy to ignite the fuel vapors when you're filling up your car. Do not be afraid to use your mobile phones when you're filling up...just don't do one thing; get in and out of the car, and touching the pump immediately after. This has been shown statistically and scientifically to really ignite the fumes. BUSTED!

5) Sillicone implants will explode when you go to high altitudes.
Contrary to what many Holliwood celebrities' believes, breast implants with silicone will not explode when you get in a jet, and fly at high altitudes. In fact, even when you subject it to extreme pressure several times that of the atmosphere, nothing changes, except the formation of tiny bubbles, which by the way, will not blow up. BUSTED!

6) CD-ROM will shatter if run continuosly at 52x at your computer and have the shards pierce you.
Although we like to believe that the CD-ROM player that we buy are safe for use, there is some grain of truth in this myth. However, this is more of an operational safety kind of thing rather than material defect. Spinning the cd at full speed has the potential to shatter the disc, but the disc itself will have to be substantially weakened for it to shatter, and the enclosures of you CD-ROM to be made of paper for the shrapnels to even start flying at you. Grains of TRUTH!

7) Pissing on an electrified rail will electrocute you.
Your piss does conduct electricity due to the high inpurity it contains. It will also electrocute you if you pee on an electrified track, on a wet ground, without rubber shoes and your pee does not break up upon contact. However, for this to happen, you either had to be really desperate, or stupid or just plain fucking lazy to find a toilet. Either way, you should get electrocuted. TRUTH!

8) A barrel of brick will fall down, breaks and spill its content, goes up, hits you, and then comes down again and hits you the third time.
Murphy's Law worst case scenario for construction workers. Due to the way the barrel is constructed, having it fall 30ft with 500lbs of bricks will not break it and spill its content out. BUSTED!

9) Electric eel skin wallet will wipe your credit card info.
Totally crap! It's a dead fish! And your credit card is much more resilient than you thought. Magnetic strength of up to 1000 gauss is need to really wipe the date contained in the credit card, and the strongest magnetic field you will likely to meet in everyday life is just about 10 gauss. The eel skin wallet? Zero gauss! BUSTED!

10) A penny dropped from the Empire State building (or any high building) will shatter your skull.
A variation of this myth is that a drop of mercury will penetrate your skull. So not true. In fact, any sizable weight falling at 120mph and hitting you will shatter your head and much more. A penny just does not have enough mass to do enough damage. BUSTED!

11) Dissimilar tooth fillings will pick up radio signals...and you can hear them.
Totally not true. I do not know what you hear, this is so stinking false! Even if you can pick up the frequencies with the fillings in your teeth, your brain would not be able to process the data. Why? Becouse your brain is not wired to process radio frequencies you numbskull! BUSTED!

12) People buried alive will still be alive after several hours.
There is not enough air in a sealed coffin to last you even 3 hours, let alone 3 days. Plus the weight of several tonnes of earth crushing down on the coffin would've crushed it flat. You'll sonner die of crushing than run out of air. BUSTED!

13) Cola can clean chrome, melt steak, clears corrosion.....
Cola does clear up chrome pretty well, even better than the retail chrome cleaners. However, the other part of it just does not add up. Grains of TRUTH!

14) Dropping a hammer (or heavy object) just before you hit the water (after a drop of 100m) will save you.
If you drop from 100ft (33m) into the water, the G force generated is in excess of 280Gs. That's more than what a human body is designed to withstand. That's becouse at such height, hitting the water is like hitting solid concrete due to the high surface tension of the water. Even if you break the tension by dropping a heavy object before you, it won't reduce the G forces by any significant amount. Verdict: You'll still die. BUSTED!

15) Lightning will strike the person with metal stud in their tongue.
Not true. There is no statistical data to support that sporting a tongue-stud will attract more lightning strikes. BUSTED!

16) A wooden cannon will explode with standard explosive charge and kill a whole village.
A cannon made from hardwood trunk is very strong. For it to blow up, it is neccesary to blow it up with several kilos of gunpowder, which is not very wise or practical under the circumstances. BUSTED!

17) A duck's quack has no echo.
It does echo. The catch is the duck's echo wave signature is really a close match with the original's quack. So you may be hearing the echo, but thought it was the duck. BUSTED!

18) Chicken gun: Frozen chicken vs. thawed chicken, which one will shatter the windscreen.
It does not matter whether the chicken you fired at a windscreen is frozen or thawed; if the mass of the chicken is the same for both case, both will produce the same result: the force of impact will be the same. BUSTED!

19) A bullet fired (and piercing the fuselage) in an aircraft flying at altitude will create explosive decompression.
Definately not true. There is not enough outrush of air from the hole a small bullet makes. Explosive decompression involves large mass of air exiting from one location for it to be destructive. Otherwise, it's just a 'poof' in the night. BUSTED!

20) Goldfish has only 3 (or 15 depending on source) seconds of memory.
Goldfish has memories far longer than that. Some studies suggested maybe several weeks. BUSTED!

There you have it. It's not much of an explaination, but it's something. So, don't be afraid to do something just becouse you heard it can't be done.