You might have often wondered about these sorts of questions, but never took the time to resolve them. Cecil Adams has, and he's created his Straight Dope website to act as a repository of all those nagging, seemingly trivial mysteries. The site offers a search engine so that you can quickly zero in on your particular quandry, or you can browse through lists of questions and answers. Perhaps you've heard the stories. The rice thrown at weddings gets eaten by birds and swells in their little stomachs and kills them.
Fiends attempt to hook kids on drugs by distributing lick and stick tatoos.
These are great stories, but all are untrue. This website presents a well- organized explication of urban legends in categories ranging over animals, celebrities, medical, legal, science, sex, song, TV, and more. You'll be sure to find a yarn that someone has told you, insisting it is true. You've probably received the urgent email messages many times from your Uncle Earl or chatty co-worker. Fueled by ignorance, these deceits spread by the Internet and generates massive amounts of useless mail.