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Amount of prison time given to a man who falsely claimed to find a rat in a bottle of Coors beer:
18 months
On October 25, 1988, James Harvey was sentenced to 18 months in prison in Jacksonville, Florida after he demanded $35,000 from Coors after falsely claiming that he found a rat in a bottle of Coors' beer.
Source: UPI, 10/25/1988
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SpiralStares (flickr 2007) Used with permission.
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Number of polygraph examinations conducted annually in the U.S. as of 2008:
1.6 million
According to the American Polygraph Association.
Source: Wall Street Journal, 3/22/2008
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Approximate number of polygraph examiners in the U.S.:
5,000
Source: Wall Street Journal, 3/22/2008
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Ways to beat a lie detector test, according to a 1994 University of Utah study:
Biting your tongue, squeezing your toes to the floor and counting backwards.
Source: USA Today, 9/10/2002
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