It is probably an urban legend... but thanks for sharing it, it is funny...

There are a surprising number of science urban legends. Like the one about alfred Nobel not including mathematics as a nobel prize category cuz his wife left him for a mathmetician....URBAN LEGEND he was never married...

I am remembering late night study sessions at RLM at UT where we broke down and dropped jellybeans off the top of the ~16 story building and timed their fall to see just how much air friction altered the equations...

We were working on relativity homework and we needed a newtonian break. (Results of the experiment were that newtonian mechanics work to within the accuracy of a very tired girl holding a stopwatch....and that jelly beans have weird fracture patterns.) Dont get me started on the tests we did on cans of soda....:)

anyway take it with a grain of salt....