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Originally Posted by garinda
There are lots, and lots.
Are any based on fact?
Which ones do you know?
I'll start off.
Picking dandelions, and getting the white sap on your skin, will result in bed wetting.
Eating bread crusts makes your hair curl.
If you hold a buttercup under your chin, and there's a yellow reflection, it means you like butter.
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The dandelion - Dente-de-leon (French) -Dente di leone (Italian) -known colloquially as "Pis-en-lit" both in France and Italy where the leaves are picked young and eaten as a salad. Very bitter with well-known diuretic effect -Pis-en-lit literally means "wet the bed"! There is always some wisdom/ truth in these sayings...