Hoax: Rat Farts, Turkeys, Highways

Louise (Happy 4-oh!) wants to know if it's true that rats can't fart, so if you leave Dr. Pepper out, they'll drink it and then explode. For once, Snopes has let me down. This rat-lover's web site says rats can fart - they just can't burp or vomit.

Snopes does back up Jim on two myths he recently debunked - turkey doesn't make you drowsy and US highways don't have a straight, flat one mile stretch in every five miles to be used as an emergency airstrip. (To be honest, only Jim had ever heard that last myth put forward.)