A child complained of being hurt while playing in the "ball pit" at a local Burger King and pointed out a small red mark on his behind. His mother noticed something like a splinter just under the skin so made an appointment to have it looked at. Within a few hours the child went into a coma and died - the splinter had been the needle from a syringe full of heroin that had been discarded in the pit.

A child complained of being hurt while playing in the "ball pit" at a local Burger King and pointed out a small red marks on his legs and arms. As his skin began to swell, 911 was called but arrived too late. The child had been bitten several times by poisonous snakes living in the ball pit.

Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Charlie Chaplin's remains were stolen and held for ransom.

These are both true

Cabbage Patch kids were modeled after mentally defective children to get people used to what children would look like after a nuclear war.

A man in a convenience store bought a bottle of Coke that tasted funny, upon closer inspection he found a mouse in the bottom of the bottle. He was "permanantly sickened" by the incident.

Douching with Coca-Cola will prevent pregnancy.

Coca-Cola became a carbonated drink when a soda jerk accidentally mixed Coca-Cola syrup with soda water.

A tooth left overnight in a glass of Coca-Cola will dissolve.

The modern image of Santa Claus in a red-and-white suit is derived from advertising illustrations created for The Coca-Cola Company. <This is true>

The Coca-Cola corporation sends people around the country ordering "Coke" at restaurants. If it isn't real Coke they send the restaurant a letter reminding them that "Coke" refers to soft drinks made by Coca-Cola, not Pepsi or anyone else. <This is true>

Actor Benjamin Curtis, who played the wise-cracking "Steven" in more than a dozen "Dude, you're getting a Dell" commercials, was arrested for marijuana possession. Dell decided to fire Curtis and make new commercials to replace the old ones.

No one is ever declared dead while on Disney property.

The horse-drawn hearse in front of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion is the actual hearse used to carry Brigham Young's body.

Disney parks are riddled with secret tunnels and surveillance equipment. <True>

There is a secret "Club 33" serving hard liquor, in New Orleans Square, Disneyland. <True>

Science Fiction author Harlan Ellison was fired his first day on the job at Disney Studios for making jokes about a Disney porn film that should be made. <True>

During the filming of the 1958 Disney nature documentary White Wilderness, the film crew induced lemmings into jumping off a cliff and into the sea in order to document their supposedly suicidal behavior. <True>

Disneyland's dress code used to exclude men with long hair from the park. <True>

The photographic image of a topless woman can be spotted in the background of The Rescuers. <True>

Disney produced an animated film called The Story of Menstruation. <True>

During a regular six-month cleaning of the vats Dr Pepper is mixed in, the skeleton of a missing worker was found in the bottom - his tie still wrapped around a bar of the stirring machine.

The Pepsi slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi generation" was translated in Taiwan to mean "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead." <This is true>

Diet Pepsi actually has calories, but they get away with labelling the ingredient incorrectly by paying a yearly fine.

The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, they were both eaten by a killer whale.

Febreze, a product for eliminating pet odors is toxic and has caused the deaths of many animals.

No, but Proctor & Gambel, which loves animal testing, has caused the death of many animals

When cows are milked, sometimes there is a great deal of blood that comes out along with the milk. This tainted milk is non-salable, except to the makers of pre-packaged chocolate milk, since the cocoa hides the blood. And chocolate milk makers get the milk at quite a bargain.

It is possible that blood does get in milk, since pus often does because of the sores caused by being living milk-machines.

Graham Crackers were originally intended to suppress sexual appetites.

The phrase: "In like Flynn" is referring to Errol Flynn's acquittal on statutory rape charges. <This is True>

The reason Kentucky Fried Chicken has changed their name to KFC is because they no longer use chickens, they've genetically created a food-animal that has no beak, feet or feathers and is fed through a tube until it reaches the proper size. KFC can no longer advertise chicken because of this, if you'll notice the word chicken has been removed from their menus and advertisements.

--Truth: "Fried" was removed from the title for business purposes, because it sounds unhealthy.

In areas where many of the people are illiterate, the label usually depicts a picture of what the package contains. This very logical practice proved to be quite perplexing to one big company. It tried to sell baby food in an African nation by using its regular label, which showed a baby and stated the type of baby food in the jar.

Unfortunately, the local population took one look at the labels and interpreted them to mean that the jars contained ground-up babies. Sales, of course, were terrible.

Life Savers were created by a man who's daughter had choked to death on a non-ventalated candy, he made them with an "air-hole" so that wouldn't happen to others.

On The Oprah Winfrey Show, Liz Claiborne said her clothes weren't made for black women because their hips were too big.

Also on Oprah, she admitted she supports the Ku Klux Klan.

In the 50's a town in Japan was renamed Usa so that products could be shipped to the US with the stamp MADE IN USA.

There is a city in Japan named Usa, but it's been there much longer. Also it wouldn't matter, the "Made in" labels mention countries, not cities. The tags would still say "Made in Japan"

The Phillip-Morris tobacco company funds the KKK, in the packaging design of Marlboros Cigarretes you can see the 3 K's.

Two Marlboro Men have died of lung cancer. <This is true>

McDonald's uses worm-meat in their burgers to save on costs.

McDonald's also serves kangeroo meat in thier burgers to save on costs.

No two countries which have McDonald's fast-food chains have ever gone to war.

McDonald's uses minute traces of chemical substances in their food to make it addictive.

McDonalds milkshakes are made with lard.

Mcdonalds use embalming to preserve their food. The same fluid used on dead people to preserve their bodies.

The average McDonald's throws away an entire cow's worth of beef each day. They are also the biggest producer of waste in the world. <True>

Eating Pop Rocks with soda causes your stomach to explode, a famous victim of this fatal combination was Mikey from the Life Cereal commercials.

Drinking Mountain Dew causes your testicles to shrink.

BMW's Middle-East website's maps don't recognize Israel.

Circulated via email:

"My mother in law received a letter from a credit card company which stated Osama Bin laden was a principal owner of Citibank. My husband called the credit card company to check the validity of the letter. Then he called Citibank 1-800-950-5114. They confirmed that Osama Bin Laden is a principal owner, not a stock holder, but a principal owner. Then they said they couldn't discuss anything else.

For any of you that have a citibank credit card... don't use it! Osama is counting on our money. I have a Citibank Choice Card and I used it primarily for my household purchases. But I won't any more. I never would have thought that my purchases would put money into a terrorists pockets...

Call the 800 number above and verify this for yourself... Those of you who know me, Call me and I will relay this same story to you!!!!!!

Pass this on so we can freeze the flow of money to this terrorist."

Carmex, a cold-sore and chapped-lip salve sold in small jars, is addictive.

Waterproof sunscreen can make you go blind.

Tampons contain Asbestos to encourage bleeding so women will use more of them.
--Lots really do contain rayon and dioxin, which are potentionally harmful chemicals

The Proctor & Gamble logo, a moon with a face, had 666 hidden backwards in it's beard, also if you connected the stars around him you got more sixes. This was because the big boys at P&G had sold their souls to become so successful.

--When this one started getting around, Proctor & Gamble immediately dropped the logo from use.

The President of Procter & Gamble appeared on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show and announced that "due to the openness of our society", he was coming out of the closet about his association with the Church of Satan. He stated that a large portion of his profits from Procter & Gamble Products goes to support this satanic church. When asked by Sally Jesse if stating this on TV would hurt his business, he replied, "There are not enough Christians in the United States to make a difference."

Red Bull Energy Drink contains a government-manufactured stimulant linked to brain tumors.

A girl ate a taco from Taco Bell that contained roach eggs, the eggs got into the lining of her mouth via her salivary glands, grew to adulthood and crawled out.

There was a brand of diet pills that contained the heads of tapeworms, inside people's bodies they'd regrow and the people would immediately begin to lose weight. The only way to get rid of the worms, once infested, is to starve for days then sit a bowl of warm milk in front of you and open your mouth so the hungry worms can smell it and crawl up your throat and out into the milk.

This is partially true, tapeworms were sold as diet aids for years. The warm milk part is a little far-fetched, though.

Tommy Hilfiger revealed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he didn't design his clothes for black and asians (or other minority groups).

--In some other versions, the interview is with Larry King.

Snapple supports Operation Rescue, a right-wing organization that tries to shut down women's health clinics.

Snapple also supports the Ku Klux Klan, another right-wing group. The ship on the label is a slave-ship.

Subway's Jarrett died from his rapid weight-loss. Another version is that he died of a heart attack

Every year on Super Bowl Sunday the water systems of major cities are in danger of collapsing because of so many simultaneous toilet flushings at half-time.

More women are physically abused by spouses and boyfriends on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year.

Two-thirds of all the avocados sold yearly in the United States are purchased during the three weeks prior to the Super Bowl for making guacamole dip.

Disneyland becomes a veritable ghost town on the day of the Super Bowl because so many Americans are planted in front of their TV sets.

The stock market predictably fluctuates up or down the Monday after the Super Bowl, depending on which league wins.

When Dorothy and the scarecrow are approaching a small house... nearly at the end of the yellow bricked road you can see the "ghost" which appears to be looking right into the camera.