Urban Legends

We've all heard them. Stories that are so far fetched, yet they become folklore. Some are so ridiculous they are funny, some are "old wives tales", and some bring out fear in people. I am talking about Urban Legends. Here are some of my favorites of all time:

1) If you eat pop rocks candy with soda, your head will explode.
2) Kentucky Fried Chicken is now called KFC because they can't use the word chicken in their name because they use/breed genetically altered chickens that grow without heads and the government does not consider it "chicken."
3) Drug users that have the AIDS virus put their old needles in coin return slots on pay phones so that when you stick your hand in there to get your change, you will become infected.
4) Gang members drive without headlights on at night and if you flash them to let them know their lights are off, they kill you.
5) If you shave hair, it grows back thicker and darker.
6) If you swallow chewing gum it stays in your system for 7 years.
7) The UPC code on Michael Jackson's "Thriller" Album contains his phone number.
8) If you forward that e-mail from Bill Gates and Microsoft, he will send you money.
9) In the movie, "Three Men and a Baby", an image of a dead boy appears in the window.
10) The song "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins was written after he witnessed a drowning.
11) On 9/11/01 a man on the top of the WTC rode the building all the way down as it collapsed and he survived.
12) Employees of Arab descent at Dunkin Donuts and National Wholesale Liquidators danced in the aisles as the attacks took place on 9/11/01.
13) Everyone was to light a candle on 10/1/01 for the 9/11 victims so that a sattellite photo could be taken from space.

I'd love to hear some of your favorites.