The Hardest “True Or False” Quiz You’ll Take Today
Not everything you thought you knew might be true…
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False.
It strikes in the same place quite a lot. The Empire State Building gets struck over 100 times a year.
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That’s true.
You can watch a video of Chris Hadfield demonstrating it on board the International Space Station if you want.
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False!
Only one half of an earthworm can regenerate when it’s cut in half, not both halves.
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It’s true!
It’s not as good as a dog’s, but the human nose is still pretty incredible.
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True!
Lots of bones (like the cranium) start out as several fragments at birth, then fuse together into a single bone later in life.
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That’s false.
Even though he’s widely believed to have been short, he was actually above average height for his time.
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It’s false.
Goldfishes’ legendarily short memory is a common belief, but it’s been debunked repeatedly. They can actually remember things for quite a long time.
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It’s true!
Your body has around ten times as many bacterial cells in it than your own cells.
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It’s false!
They really don’t.
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True!
Not all dinosaurs became extinct; some of them survived, and every bird alive today is descended from those survivors.
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True!
U.S. taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
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12. Water spirals down the plughole in opposite directions in the northern and southern hemispheres.Faaaaaaalse.
It really doesn’t (even though some people on the equator make a living fooling tourists into thinking it does…)
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True!
The second man to stand on fthe moon was the first to pee there (into a special bag in his spacesuit) — shortly after he stepped off the ladder of Apollo 11’s Lunar Module.
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False!
The official shelf life of a Twinkie is 45 days. People have kept them around for longer, but they become inedible.
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That’s true.
It’s because our voice box is lower in the throat than other primates (who can do both at once.) On the plus side, this means we can use language…
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16. The popular image of Santa Claus — chubby, bearded, in red and white clothes — was invented by Coca-Cola for an ad campaign.Comstock/ThinkstockThat’s false.
Santa was portrayed like that for decades before Coke got in on the act.
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It’s true.
The metal of the tower expands in the heat of the sun, so the sun-facing side is always slightly bigger than the one facing away — making it lean as much as seven inches away from the sun.
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That’s false.
Drinking pretty much any non-fatal amount of alcohol won’t add enough alcohol to your blood stream to destroy your neurons.
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19. The owner of the company that makes Segways died after accidentally driving his Segway off a cliff.Kim Carson/Thinkstock
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