Incomplete Disputes
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True or False? "Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs.""
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True or False? "3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear."
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True or False? "A kangaroo's penis is forked."
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True or False? "In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined."
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True or False? "When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year."
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True or False? "In 1994, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a nearby cellular telephone captivated a power wheelchair at a scenic vista in Colorado, sending the passenger over a cliff."
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True or False? "If you urinate when swimming in a South American river, you may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish is known to follow a stream of urine to its source, swim inside the body, and flare is barbed fins."
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True or False? "The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill."
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True or False? "The Earth rotates on its axis more slowly in March than in September."
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True or False? "Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag, and the only one to be its own country."
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True or False? ""Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio."
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True or False? "Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason."
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True or False? "The San Franciso Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments."
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True or False? "An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes."
Filed under: Science & Math
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True or False? "Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds."
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True or False? "It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound."
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True or False? "Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games."
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True or False? "'Chachi' is Korean for 'penis'."
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True or False? "The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television."
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True or False? "After Eva Peron's death, her husband, Juan Peron (president of Argentina from 1946-1955) had her embalmed and sat at the breakfast table where he could talk to her every morning."
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True or False? "During each baseball game the 350 pound president William Taft needed to stretch. This always happened at about the seventh inning, so the "seventh inning stretch" was adopted."
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True or False? "A baby oyster is called a spat."
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True or False? "A baby eel is called an elver."
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True or False? "To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let go instantly."
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True or False? "After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy."
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True or False? "The saying "It's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from the time of the Civil War."
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True or False? "Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor."
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True or False? "If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, because they need gravity to swallow."
Filed under: Science & Math
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True or False? "Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd.""
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True or False? "The three tones that are played during the showing of the NBC logo are G, E, and C. GEC, aka General Electric Company, is the parent company of NBC."