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Most check the of legends is not confirmed.

Back in 2002, producer Peter Rice invited the Discovery channel to produce the transfer, which would have been the verification of various tales, rumors, urban legends and myths, reports the Chronicle.info with reference on the BigPicture.

Since then, two charming special effects Jamie hyneman and Adam savage tirelessly refute or confirm these myths in the program “Destroyers of legends”.

1. Spilled gasoline can be ignited with a cigarette.

TRUTH: Cigarette can ignite gasoline (temperature of ignition of the gasoline — 260-280 °C, and the cigarette during Smoking gives 260-300 °C).

2. Metal body piercings increase the chance of being struck by lightning.

MYTH: in Order to “attract” lightning, you need a piercing the size of a doorknob.

3. Swallowed while swimming fertilized octopus egg can Mature in the stomach.

MYTH: Set the experiment showed that the eggs of the octopus due to adverse conditions die in the human stomach long before ripening.

4. A sinking ship creates a strong funnel that can captivate a man under water.

MYTH: it can’t. Although used in small vessel “Miftanim”, neither Adam nor Jamie under the water is not delayed, despite the fact that they were directly above a sinking ship.

5. If you eat poppy seed cake, then a drug test will show that you are under the influence of drugs.

TRUTH: IN the poppy seeds may contain a number of alkaloids of opium. Therefore, if the device for definition of drugs is quite sensitive, and it will work. Leading confirmed it, eating a muffin with poppy seeds and failing the drug test.

6. If you eat a lot of sweets and fizzy drink a lot of Cola, the stomach will explode.

MYTH: Carbon dioxide released during this reaction, enough to blow up the stomach. Although this will surely hurt the person who did this.

7. Bunch of balloons can lift into the air four year old child.

The TRUTH is: Maybe. This will require 3500 balloons.

8. In a thunderstorm, people can be amazed by the surge of electricity through the phone during a call.

TRUTH: the Destroyers put a dummy out of ballistic gel on the chair and put the phone to his ear. Then they turned on the artificial lightning — discharge voltage of 200 000, which struck the layout of the house, which housed a mannequin. The discharge from the handset microphone hit in the mouth of the manikin and detonated gunpowder, placed in it as alarm triggering. In the voltmeter to measure the voltage in the dummy blown fuses.

9. A sandwich with a greater likelihood of falls butter side down, than up.

MYTH: a Comprehensive and unbiased test did not show any statistically significant deviation in the fall of the sandwiches up or down with oil. The ratio falls butter side down and oil up was 50: 50. Although the pitting of a sandwich from the table, he usually makes only one revolution and just falls butter side down.

10. A sunken ship can be lifted with balls for ping-pong.

TRUTH: you Can! The balls are lifted from the bottom “Miftanim-2”, although they had to be pumped into the vessel with water to about 27 thousand, which is rarely used in practice.

11. Coin dropped from a skyscraper can develop enough speed to kill a pedestrian below.

MYTH: the Coin is not able to kill. Due to air resistance coin can not constantly accelerate. After 100 meters she fell, she almost does not change its speed. And at this speed the mass of small coins not enough to penetrate human skin. If she fired the gun, the coin can cause some damage, but not kill.

12. On the loungers fly, tying it to weather balloons and then land safely by shooting balls from a pneumatic gun.

TRUTH: you Can fly and then fall. Adam savage took off on your device, consisting of lounge chairs and 16 balls from meteorological probes, and safely reached a height of 22.5 meters. Then he knocked one of the balls and safely descended from heaven to earth. The myth was also confirmed by the documents of the Agency of air communications.

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13. If you got buried alive, you stay alive.

MYTH: To test this myth Jamie has risked his life. Although he spent netuserenum in the coffin for 50 minutes, after the coffin was covered with earth, he stood only 30 minutes. Suffocation from lack of oxygen will lead to death buried alive, if the casket will not be crushed by the earth. It is the risk of possible fracture of the coffin was forced to interrupt the experiment after 30 minutes.

14. Urinating on the energized metal fence leads to electric shock.

PARTLY TRUE: the Impact will be. But this is assuming that the person is close to the fence. At a great distance urine stream breaks into droplets, which makes it impossible for the flow of current, because the strike would not.

15. Drop the appliance in water bath deadly for in her man.

TRUE: the Current flowing through the “heart” of the dummy out of ballistic gel, proved fatal for most tested appliances (toaster, Hairdryer, radio and so on). It has been proven that the use of differential protective devices (RCD) eliminates shock hazard as in the case of installation of the RCD in the mains, and in the case of the application of the RCD in the electrical device (Hairdryer, fitted with RCD, almost instantly passed out in the water).

16. “5-second rule” is true for food that fell on the floor.

MYTH: For those who don’t know: “5-second rule” asserts the possibility of safe use of products that have fallen on the floor and raised within five seconds. In fact, between the number of bacteria collected in 2 seconds and 5 seconds, almost no difference.

17. Glass of wine can break with your voice.

TRUTH: WITH amplifier and speakers destroyers broke a crystal glass. And rock singer Jamie Vendera managed to break a glass with only their voice, without the use of any devices is finally confirmed the myth.

18. In the Solarium you can get something to fry.

MYTH: No, of course! Ultraviolet waves tanning can only cause sunburn.

19. Shot lock gun can open it.

MYTH: Any 9mm pistol or 357 Magnum is not opened the lock nor hanging, nor flush.

20. If in a falling Elevator at the last moment to jump, you can soften the blow and survive.

MYTH: the speed of the jump man is too small compared to the speed of the falling Elevator, and the blow is softened slightly, too. Also to guess the time of the fall is very difficult. The best advice in this situation — do not jump, and lie on the floor of the cab.

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