YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WYTV) – Are these statements true or false? The answers are below.
- The game known as Yahtzee was first called The Yacht Game by a rich Canadian couple who invented the game to play it with friends on their yacht.
- In 1878, Henry Marcus Quackenbush invented the world’s first spring-loaded nutcracker.
- The cowboy hat, or Stetson, is known as the hat that won the west.
- During the production of “Toy Story Two,” a technician accidentally deleted all of the complete scenes. A pregnant designer for Pixar, working at home on maternity leave, had a copy. The move was saved!
- Prehistoric cave art found in Sicily suggests that belly dancing started as part of an ancient fertility ritual.
- The famous gunfight at the OK Corral in 1881 was actually fought over a woman.
- The human nose can produce as much as one quart of mucus a day.
- True
- True
- False (it was the Bowler)
- True
- True
- Not True… Virgil Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holiday faced off in Tombstone, Arizona to take some cowboy’s guns away from them.
- True
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