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Hidden : 6/3/2018
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Please DO NOT go to posted coordinates as there is NO CACHE there.
There is 15 caches in this series to find, in some of the caches you will find other coordinates write them down and when you have all the coordinates you can go find the last one in this series.
To find the right coordinates for each cache you need to know if the quote is a MYTH or TRUE. Then you can go find the cache once you figure out the right coordinates.

Good Luck and have fun.

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NORTH = N 52 AB.CDE

MYTH OR TRUE

A = Fright can turn a person's hair white overnight.

     MYTH = 1     TRUE = 0

Stress won't change your hair's coloring instanty - but it can cause the darker hairs to fall out, making it appear as though you've gone gray in relaticely short order.

B = A man selling one of his kidneys on eBay stood to make more than $5.7 million before the plug was pulled on the auction.

     MYTH = 7     TRUE = 6

eBay prohibits the sale of body parts.

C = Doc Martens' real name was Dr. Klaus Maertens; the British company that sold his shoes Anglicized the trade name.

     MYTH = 0     TRUE = 1

The initiative was to counter anti-German sentiment in the wake of WWII.

D = As a young man; Mel Gibson underwent years of cosmetic surgery after a fight disfigured his face.

     MYTH = 0     TRUE = 5

Mel Gibson played a disfigured man n the 1993 drama The Man Without a Face, but the work was a fictional one based on the novel by Isabelle Holland/

E = Ten days after the biggest bank heist in Japanese histiry, the thieves sent a thank-you note to the institution.

     MYTH = 7     TRUE = 5

The Fukutoku Bank in Kobe lost $5.4 million.

WEST = W 113 AB.CDE

MYTH OR TRUE

​A = So many people use the washroom at half time on Super Bowl weekend that water pressure drops and sewage systems rupture in major cities.

     MYTH = 4     TRUE = 5

This same myth has been told about the final episode of M*A*S*H; it wasn't true then, either

B = Never let a child with a head injury fall asleep. They could slip into a coma.

     MYTH = 5     TRUE = 0

Doctors suggest waking a child with a head injury every four hours

C = A man snuck onto one of the Titanic's lifeboats dressed as a woman.

     MYTH = 5     TRUE = 8

Although at least three men were accused of such cowardice, no evidence supports the claim.

D = Gravity is stronger in Hawaii than it is in Maine.

     MYTH = 7     TRUE = 4

Earth isn't a perfect sphere and experiences gravitational high and low area as a result; gravity's pull is the strongest in the southwestern Pacific and weakest off the tip of India.

E = There is no living descendant of William Shakespeare.

     MYTH = 4     TRUE = 2

Shakespear's lineage dies out sithin three generations; he has a sisiter, though, whose descendants survive to this day.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Uvtuyvtug.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)