Gum digests as fast as any other food.

Have you ever received an email from someone telling you to CAUTION, people are out to kill women in mall parking lots and the government is trying to pass some crazy outrageous law, contact your local officials?  Well I get this stuff all the time from friends a family.  Yes,  I know a few chronic "forwarders" out there.  Well turns out, most of those email are complete crap.  A couple years ago I found a website that I have to admit is now a guilty pleasure of mine.  Its called snopes.com.  It lists urban myths, legends, stories and they do research find out if there is any validity and where these things originate.  After checking out the stories, they determine if the info is true, false, or misrepresentation of the truth.  I think it's a pretty trustworthy source.  For example, for years I have been putting my batteries in the fridge because my mom kept her batteries in the fridge.  She told me that this keeps them alive longer.  Apparently this is a pretty wide spread belief, and last week when I was just browsing the site, I found out its not true at all, in fact, according to Energizer, it can actually be bad for todays' batteries because condensation can form on them, damaging them.  If you check out the site you can also find out that Twinkies do not in fact have an indefinite shelf life, although I don't know who doesn't eat them as soon as they open the package  anyways.  However, it is true that the youngest person to have a successful pregnancy is a 5 year old Peruvian girl.  And in case anyone was wondering, im sorry to tell you, but Elvis Presley is in fact dead.  When an email says, "after you forward this to 7 people, you'll get a really funny response"  don't spend too much time watching your inbox, it ain't coming.  Oh, and I'm sure you all are far too intelligent to fall for this one, but just in case, you do NOT have any relatives in Nigeria that left all their money to you.