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Did your mother ever tell you “No swimming for at least an hour!” after you ate lunch? Did you hear the one about the kid who ate Pop Rocks after he drank a soda? Thought they were fishy sounding? Check out what we learned:• #1: Chewing gum takes seven years to digest.

FALSE. Chewing gum moves along at the same rate as everything else. There have been some strange digestive cases, but only in children under the age of four who swallowed numerous pieces of gum a day over a period of years.

• #2: Hair grows back darker and thicker after you shave it. FALSE. If this were true, balding and graying men could just shave their heads and solve the problem!

• #3: Don’t swim for at least an hour after eating or you will get cramps and drown! FALSE. Cramps while swimming can happen regardless of whether or not you’ve just eaten – and they usually happen in your arms and

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legs, not your stomach. If you do get a cramp, stay calm and float until help arrives or the cramp subsides.

• #4: Change your shampoo regularly or your hair will build up a resistance to it. FALSE. Your hair doesn’t build up a resistance to shampoo. If you are noticing a difference, test your water. It could be too hard or soft.

• #5: Brushing your hair 100 strokes before bedtime will make it shinier and healthier. FALSE. Brushing too much, too hard or with the wrong brush can cause damage to your hair or your scalp.

• #6: Wearing a hat too much will make you go bald. FALSE. Hair loss is caused by genetics, stress and poor health, not your hat.

• #7: Here are some useful tips to remove a tick: Touch it with a lit match, rub it with a cotton swab covered in liquid soap, twist it off, etc. FALSE. The best way to remove a tick is to grab it by the head with a pair tweezers and pull it straight out. Don’t forget to clean with soap and water and treat with an antibiotic ointment.

• #8: Coca-Cola products originally contained cocaine. TRUE. Coca-Cola did once contain trace amounts of cocaine, but Coca-Cola products with cocaine were no longer produced after the 1930s.

• #9: A tooth or nail left in Coca-Cola will disintegrate over night. FALSE. While not true, anything containing too many sugars, like sodas, can weaken the enamel of your teeth over time. Remember to limit your sugary food and beverage intake and brush your teeth daily.

• #10: If you eat Pop Rocks and drink a soda, your stomach will swell and possibly explode. FALSE. Pop Rocks generate less gas than half of one can of soda. In the absolute worst-case scenario, you will end up with a nice, healthy burp.

• # 11: Dropped food is okay to eat if you pick it up within five seconds. FALSE. Once it’s been dropped, it’s been dropped. Anything that is dropped on the floor will pick up just as many germs in that first tenth of a second as it does after five.

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Teach a Child to ReadRemember how many times you enjoyed a good book as a child -

- or maybe hundreds of books? Think about how much they enriched your life, and the characters (like Huck Finn) and stories (“The Boxcar Children,” perhaps) that you remember with a smile.

What if there were no favorite characters or tales you recall because you never learned to love reading?

Across the country there are too many children who haven’t formed a relationship with the printed page. But there’s a solution, and you can help. Consider becoming a reading tutor for a young child.

Experience Corps [www.experiencecorps.org] has had some wonderful results with its award-winning program. With groups in 23 cities, it matched senior volunteer tutors with young children last year and had significant results: The students paired with a senior tutor made 60 percent more progress than other students in two important areas, comprehension and sounding out words. The students benefited from the one-on-one attention with higher test scores and increased self-confidence.

The seniors also benefited, which is no surprise. According to the study, seniors who tutored showed an increase in cognitive ability and physical activity.

If there’s no Experience Corps near you, you can still help. If teaching children to love to read and increasing their skills appeals to you, check with the principal of a school near you for a possible training seminar that could give you the necessary skills. You might have to get a background check before you start. Ask about any local classes given over the summer so you can be all set to go with school starts in the fall. If you want to get a head start and see what it’s all about, take a look at the information at Literacy Connections [www.literacyconnections.com].

Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Write to her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].

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• #12: The playground ball pits at fast food restaurants are home to venomous snakes and drug paraphernalia. FALSE. There has never been any report of injury or death in a playground ball pit due to snakes, drug needles, etc. If either story were true, they would have garnered intense media coverage.

• #13: Rice is bad for birds. You shouldn’t throw it at a wedding. FALSE. A bird could just as soon eat rice in a field as it could on a sidewalk after a wedding. Their little bird tummies will not swell or explode.

• #14: Please forward this email to all your friends and family! It is being tracked. For every forward, a well known corporation will donate five cents towards cancer research. FALSE. It’s virtually impossible to track an email from forwarding alone. This goes the same for most email chain letters. If you are ever unsure about an email, visit snopes.com, a website dedicated to researching hoaxes and urban legends.

• #15: If everyone boycotted gas stations on the same day, it would drive the price of gas down. FALSE. To make a substantial dent in the price of gas, large numbers of people would have to not buy gas for an extended period of time.

• #16: JeLL-o is made from cow hooves. TRUE & FALSE. JELL-O isn’t made from cow hooves, but it is made from gelatin, a product made from the collagen of cows and pigs. Collagen is collected from bones and skins by an extensive process that releases the collagen from the bones, which is then used to make gelatin.

• #17: eating carrots can improve your vision. FALSE. While carrots do contain Vitamin A, which helps maintain healthy eyesight, eating a lot of carrots will not improve your vision.

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Q.I am looking for advice on grass seed for my backyard. It gets afternoon sun, mostly sun, some shade. I’m interested in something

easy that will cover quickly. Tall fescue comes up in clumps, which I don’t care for. Are there any other options?

A.If you have mostly sun, one of the best grasses grown from seed is Bermuda. There are several improved cultivars with good cold

tolerance and good turf quality. The cultivars include ‘Barbados’, ‘Contessa’, ‘Princess 77’, ‘Riviera’ and ‘Yukon’.

Q.I hope you can help me. I was talking to my wife about planting a raised veggie garden in our backyard, which means spending some

money. She said, “Why don’t you just till up some ground and plant a garden?” I was dumbfounded - as husbands usually are - and didn’t know what to say, although I’m thinking that I live in Maumelle and the soil is mostly clay and...that’s all I can come up with. Can you shed some light on this?

A.Raised beds are by far easier than planting in the ground for a couple of reasons - one, you have more control over the soil--and can deal

with problem sites like clay or rocks. Secondly, using raised beds gives you an elevated area to plant in. On the flip side, you can just till up the soil and plant a garden, but try to get rid of grass and weeds before tilling or you will have a mess. Adding some compost into the clay can also help to improve drainage and add organic matter. Make sure whichever approach you use that the area has at least 6-8 hours of sunlight a day.

Courtesy of University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative extension Service.

In the Garden with Janet B. Carson

Mother Earth’s Community Garden, downtown Fort Smith at the corner of North 9th and D Streets is open for gardening. I have a few garden plots available if anyone is interested. Your only cost is what you do with your individual bed. We show free movies, have all kinds of cook-outs. We are one big family. If this is something you think you would be interested in, you can preview the garden at www..mecgarden.ning.com

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These Cars will Sell Fast! Hondas, Chevys, Toyotas, Jeeps, etc. For listings 1-800-749-8116 x 3201.

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• King Harald V, the reigning monarch of Norway, is a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

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• #18: eating turkey will make you fall asleep. TRUE & FALSE. Turkey does contain the amino acid tryptophan, which helps the body produce a chemical that plays a key role in sleep. However, it is produced in such small amounts that eating turkey isn’t going to make you feel sleepy. When you do get tired after the Thanksgiving meal, that sleepy feeling is more likely caused by the combined efforts of a heavy meal full of carbohydrates and your digestive system working in high gear.

• #19: Ice cubes made with hot water will freeze faster than ice cubes made with cold water. FALSE. A tray of hot water and a tray of cold water will freeze into ice cubes in the same amount of time.

• #20: Cooking metal objects in the microwave will cause your microwave to explode. FALSE. While it won’t explode, you will severely shorten the lifespan of your microwave and probably null the warranty, so don’t try this at home.

• #21: Kentucky Fried Chicken was forced to change their name to KFC because they use genetically modified “chickens” that aren’t considered to be real chickens by the FDA. FALSE. KFC changed its name for multiple reasons and mostly because of this: they had started serving more than just fried chicken and didn’t want to be labeled as only serving such. They do not have an army of genetically modified chickens.

• #22: Domesticated turkeys are so stupid that they will look up at the rain and drown. FALSE. A turkey’s basic instinct is to huddle to its mother for shelter in the rain. A domesticated turkey, often without a mother, still has this instinct and will not know to get out of the rain, which can lead to death from exposure to the elements.

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