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True or False? "Plowshares were invented during the 7th century AD."
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True or False? "The major flavouring in the soda Dr. Pepper is prune juice."
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True or False? "Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the only magnetic moon in the solar system."
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Was Confederate General Robert E. Lee the only person ever to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit?
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Do elephants have a good or bad sense of hearing?
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True or False? "The well known "It Girl" Clara Bow, a leading actress in silent films, once in 1927 bedded the entire USC football team."
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What is the most intelligent animal, after humans?
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How many species go extinct each day?
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What weighs more: hot water or cold water?
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What is the average lifespan (in pitches) of a major league baseball?
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Which are more intelligent: dolphins or chimpanzees?
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True or False? "Rain contains vitamin B12."
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True or False? "Don McLean's famous song "American Pie" was inspired by the name of the plane in which Buddy Holly died - American Pie."
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Do ostriches stick their heads in the sand?
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Did Betsy Ross sew the first American flag?
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True or False? "The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan."
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Do Giraffes have vocal chords?
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Is a male praying mantis capable of mating with its head still on?
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True or False? "In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured."
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True or False? "Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner."
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True or False? "Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores."
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True or False? "Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize."
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Was Isaac Newton an ordained priest of the Church of England?
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Is it true that one mile in five on the interstate must be straight to serve as an emergency airplane landing strip?
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Does a duck's quack echo?
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Who were Baby Ruth candy bars named after?
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Does any English word rhyme with 'orange'?
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How many Americans regularly attend religious services?
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True or False? "Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women."
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True or False? "If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town."
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Does any English word rhyme with 'silver'?
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What is the increase in the power of an earthquake for each unit in the Richter Scale?
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True or False? "101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die during the movie."
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True or False? "Most black widow spiders eat their mates."
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What were the last words of Charles de Gaulle?
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How long will a cockroach live without its head?
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Is a group of twelve cows known as a "flink"?
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Is the main library at Indiana sinking under the weight of books?
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What US state has the longest coastline?
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True or False? "The parachute was invented by Da Vinci in 1515."
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Did Leonardo Da Vinci invent the scissors?
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Was Winston Churchill born in a public ladies' room during a dance?
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What is the longest one-syllable word in the English language?
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What has greater volume, the Moon, or the Pacific Ocean?
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Are our eyes fully grown at birth?
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Are beer bubbles and plant collenchyma cells both shaped like "orthotetrachidecahedrons"?
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True or False? "'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'."
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True or False? "Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue."
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Is dueling legal in Paraguay?
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Are the names of all fifty states shown on the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill?
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True or False? "An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it."
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What is the fuel efficiency of the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship?
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True or False? "You consume 1/10 of a calorie each time you lick a stamp."
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True or False? "Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music."
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True or False? "Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants."
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True or False? "American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class."
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True or False? "The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows.""
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True or False? "Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history."
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Is the Great Wall of China visible from space?
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What is the origin of the military hand salute?
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What note does a housefly hum?
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Have any animals been domesticated in the last 4000 years?
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How many spiders does the average person eat during his lifetime?
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What is the origin of the word "byte"?
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True or False? "Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University."
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True or False? "90% of bird species are monogamous."
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What does the word Canada mean?
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In England, is the Speaker of the House permitted to speak?
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Is it true that 2/3 of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey?
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Does the phrase 'rule of thumb' come from an old British law that said that a husband was permitted to beat his wife with anything thinner than his thumb?
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How many eyes do starfish have?
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Why was marijuana originally outlawed in the 1930s?
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Is honey the only food that doesn't spoil?
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What is the origin of the phrase "to get fired"?
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How old was the youngest Pope?
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How many times a day do lions mate?
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What is the shortest sentence in the English language?
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How much does it cost to raise a dog, on average?
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True or False? "A cat has 32 muscles in each ear."
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True or False? "A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes."
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Is it true that a dragonfly lives only 24 hours?
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Are babies born with kneecaps?
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Was Coca Cola originally green in color?
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True or False? "More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes."
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Can cows walk down stairs?
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Do mosquitoes have teeth?
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What percentage of mammal species are monogamous?
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What percentage of the Russian government's income comes from vodka taxes?
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Did the first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WW2 kill the only elephant in the Berlin zoo?
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How long does a "jiffy" last?
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True or False? "No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super Bowl."
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True or False? "Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten."
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True or False? "In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes."
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True or False? "Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy."
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True or False? "Polar bears are left-handed."
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Can goldfish get pregnant?
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How much pizza do Americans eat each day (in acres)?
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Is a whale's penis called a "dork"?
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Does camel's milk curdle?
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What is the longest word in the English language?
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True or False? "Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times."
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If a Barbie Doll were life-size, what would her measurements be?
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What is the origin of the name "Jeep"?
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True or False? "February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon."
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True or False? "If you fart constantly for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb."
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How long does it take the average person to fall asleep?
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What is the origin of the phrase "three dog night"?
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Is the glue on Israeli postage stamps certified kosher?
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True or False? "Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of 'Lorne Greene’s Wild Kingdom'."
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What is the longest word typed only with the left hand?
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What species have sex for pleasure?
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Do all species of armadillos have four identical offspring per litter?
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True or False? "Eskimos never gamble."
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Do right-handed people live much longer than left-handed people?
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Is there a species of oyster that can climb trees?
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True or False? "The largest landowner in New York City is the Catholic Church."
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Which prints more money, the United States Treasury or Parker Brothers (the manufacturers of the Monopoly boardgame)?
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True or False? "Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair."
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Are elephants the only mammal that can't jump?
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What country consumes the most Coca Cola per person?
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Are you more likely to be killed by a champagne cork or a poisonous spider?
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True or False? "It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open."
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True or False? "Most hamsters blink one eye at a time"
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Do male or female sperm swim faster?
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True or False? "Bulls are colourblind and will charge the matador's cape whatever colour it is."
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Which of the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 (as opposed to later)?
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Do women have a better sense of hearing than men?
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How many people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year?
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True or False? "There are only three words beginning with the letter "q" in the English dictionary which do not have "u" following the first letter."
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True or False? "The Pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, to accomodate Virginia's laws on racial segregation."
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True or False? "The Bible has been translated into Klingon."
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True or False? "The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1."
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True or False? "Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo""
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True or False? "It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs."
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True or False? "The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bed frame."
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True or False? "1/12 of the US annual rainfall falls in April."
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True or False? "A West German goes about 7 days without washing his underwear."
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True or False? "36% of Americans say that God has spoken to them."
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True or False? "Washington DC is the city with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists."
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True or False? "80% of American men say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again."
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True or False? "50% of American women say they would marry the same man if they had to do it all over again."
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True or False? "85% of women say they are happier after their divorce or separation."
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True or False? "70% of Americans have visited Disneyland or Disney World."
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True or False? "1/3 of all the potatoes sold are French fried."
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True or False? "7% of Americans eat at McDonalds every day."
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True or False? "4/5 of Harvard students graduate with honors."
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True or False? "1/3 of the land in the US is owned by the government."
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True or False? "Chances 1 in 7 that a burglary in the US will be solved."
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True or False? "Abe Lincoln was the only President awarded a patent, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals."
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True or False? "A pig is the only animal besides a human that can get sunburn."
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True or False? "Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses."
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True or False? "They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better."
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True or False? "First novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer."
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True or False? "There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year."
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True or False? "Men get hiccups more often than woman."
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True or False? "Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling."
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True or False? "Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic, the language of the ancient Bible, did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40."
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True or False? "The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms that are antonyms of each other: Adhere and Separate."
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True or False? "The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism"."
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True or False? "The term "the whole 9 yards" came from World War II fighter pilots in the South Pacific."
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True or False? "The "y" in signs reading "ye olde..." is properly pronounced with a "th" sound, not "y." The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman-occupied, present-day England used the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds."
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True or False? "In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam.""
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True or False? "Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson.""
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True or False? "The "huddle" in football was formed due to a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate -- his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used so they huddled around him."
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True or False? "Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk."
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True or False? "If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation."
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True or False? "The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome."
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True or False? "If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950."
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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."
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True or False? "An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain."
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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 longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds."
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True or False? "If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, because they need gravity to swallow."
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True or False? "It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up."
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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? "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? "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 name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan.""
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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? "A baby eel is called an elver."
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True or False? "A baby oyster is called a spat."
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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? "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? "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? "'Chachi' is Korean for 'penis'."
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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? "It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound."
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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? "An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes."
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True or False? "Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined."
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True or False? "Frank Lloyd Wright’s son invented Lincoln Logs."
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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? "Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason."
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True or False? ""Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio."
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True or False? "Non-dairy creamer is flammable."
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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? "The Earth rotates on its axis more slowly in March than in September."
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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? "Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria."
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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? "Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals."
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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? "In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license."
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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 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined."
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True or False? "A kangaroo's penis is forked."
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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? "Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs.""
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True or False? "Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor"."
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True or False? "A piece of wood was placed at the entry way, hence a "thresh hold.""
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True or False? "The average American loses their virginity at the age of 15.8."
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True or False? "The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue."
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True or False? "The catfish has the most tastebuds of any animal, over 27,000."
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True or False? "The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field."
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True or False? "Fish can also get seasick."
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True or False? "Isaac Newton dropped out of school because his mother wanted him to be a successful farmer."
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True or False? "Eskimos do not and did not live in igloos. Generally an igloo is an emergency shelter."
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True or False? "When it leaves your body, your urine is sterile."
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True or False? "About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30."
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True or False? "A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer."
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True or False? "The human eye is so sensitive that, in perfect darkness, it can see a lit match 50 miles away."
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True or False? "The only rocks in the ice of Antarctica are meteorites."
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True or False? "Only humans and horses have hymens."
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True or False? "Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur."
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True or False? "Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47."
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True or False? "Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons."
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True or False? "When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city."
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True or False? "It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces."
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True or False? "The female lion does 90% of the hunting."
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True or False? "Pre-president Andrew Jackson, who may have fought as many as 100 duels before entering the White House, did not miss on May 30, 1806, when at 24 paces he killed a man who had insulted his wife."
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True or False? "Crickets don't chirp by rubbing their legs together, they make the noise by rubbing their wings together."
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True or False? "Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats."
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True or False? "We'll never know Albert Einstein's last words. He spoke them in German and his attending nurse didn't speak the language."
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True or False? "There is only one animal that can completely turn its stomach inside out and that's the starfish."
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True or False? "Pope John Paul II wrote a play that premiered on a theater in London."
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True or False? "The middle initial in Harry S Truman stands for nothing. Both grandfathers' names started with S and Harry's parents didn't want any family squabbles."
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True or False? "In 1961 Matisse's Le Bateau hung in New York's Museum of Modern Art for 47 days before someone noticed it was upside down."
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True or False? "President James Garfield was ambidextrous and could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other simultaneously."
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True or False? "Historically, only Hawaiian men danced the Hula."
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True or False? "To survive, every bird must eat at least half its own weight in food each day."
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True or False? "Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, was supposedly killed by a tortoise that was dropped on his head by an eagle who mistook the chrome dome for a rock."
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True or False? "During the Roman Empire, the Romans used lead as sweetening agent."
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True or False? "By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds."
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True or False? "Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday."
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True or False? "Sixty-six people flew across the Atlantic non-stop before Charles Lindbergh."
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True or False? "Paul Cezanne had a parot who he taught to say, "Cezanne is a great painter.""
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True or False? "More than 114 million acts of sex are performed each day around the world."
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True or False? "On average, men release 2.5 - 6 ml. of semen, containing 150 and 600 million spermatozoa in one ejaculation."
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True or False? "Approximately 2-5 percent of condoms tear during use."
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True or False? "Someone weighing 130 pounds will expend about 1.0 calorie per minute while sleeping, 1.2 surfing the Internet, and 10.3 calories per minute while running at a 10-minutes-per-mile (or 5 mph) pace."
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True or False? "40% of all dog and cat owners carry pictures of their pets in their wallets."
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True or False? "It would take 100 cups of coffee consumed in 4 hours to kill the average adult with a caffeine overdose."
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True or False? "Los Angeles, California, taxi drivers can be fined $1,500 for wearing plaid."
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True or False? "2.5 million Americans play the accordion."
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True or False? "80% of 6th graders in the U.S. can't find the United States on a map of the world."
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True or False? "The first alarm clock was invented in 1300's Germany to help monks in monastaries keep time."
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True or False? "In 1970, the South Vietnamese government awarded a medal of honour to a Saigon policeman for not accepting a $10 bribe."
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True or False? "In 1510, a trial was held in France to determine the guilt of a group of rats accused of stealing barley."
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True or False? "In 1973, a brewery in Poland accidently connected the beer storage tanks to the local water supply, delivering fresh beer to every tap in town."
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True or False? "In Czecholslovakia there is an ancient church decorated with the bones of 10,000 humans."
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True or False? "Lucille Ball flunked out of drama school."
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True or False? "King Louis XIV of France owned about 1,000 wigs."
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True or False? "People who have never been married are seven and a half times more likely than married people to be admitted to a psychiatric facility."
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True or False? "The 12th president of the United States was David Rice Atchinson, a Missouri senator who served for one day in 1849."
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How fast can bamboo grow?
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True or False? "The candy bar Baby Ruth wasn't named after Babe Ruth, but rather after the daughter of President Grover Cleveland."
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True or False? "Mary Todd once dated both Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas."
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True or False? "The biggest wave on record was estimated to have attained a height of 112 feet."
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True or False? "Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and lost."
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True or False? "Van Gogh sold only one painting during his life."
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True or False? "17th president Andrew Johnson was the only president to sew his own clothes."
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True or False? "The longest word used by Shakespeare in any of his works is "honorificabilitudinitatibus," found in "Love's Labours Lost.""
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True or False? "If placed end to end, all the Spam ever sold would circle the Earth more than ten times."
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True or False? "When Pedro I became King of Portugal in the 14th century, he had his dead mistress dug up so she could be crowned queen alongside him."
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True or False? "In Utah, birds have the right of way on all highways."
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True or False? "The name LEGO came from the Danish, "LEg GOdt," which means "play well.""
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True or False? "Although it's only 2% of our body weight, the brain uses 20% of all oxygen we breathe, 20% of the calories we take in, and 15% of the body's blood supply."
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True or False? "The youngest person to receive a driver's license is a 14 year 8 month year old by the name of Andrezej Makowski."
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True or False? "Les Miserables has a 3-page, 823-word sentence which is divided by 93 commas, 51 semicolons, and 4 dashes."
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True or False? "About 40% of the world's varieties of freshwater fish and more than half of the 8,600 species of birds in the world are in the Amazon River basin area."
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True or False? "Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47"
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True or False? "The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan"
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True or False? "It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal."
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True or False? "Vincent Van Gogh painted a picture every day for the last 70 years of his life."
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True or False? "Karen Roman grew the world's largest cauliflower, weighing in at 22 pounds."
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True or False? "Scientists find as many as 10,000 new species of insects a year."
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True or False? "By the time you're 70 you will have lost half your taste buds."
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True or False? "Black was the only colour that Ford produced the Model T. It was the only paint available which would dry fast enough to keep up with the fast pace of the assembly line."
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True or False? "The fastest speed that a rail vehicle has gone is 6,121 mph or mach 8."
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True or False? "The largest tumor ever removed intact weighed 303 lbs."
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True or False? "Americans on average produce 1,200 lbs of waste every year."
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What state has the highest proportion of obese people?
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True or False? "When christening a new ship the Vikings would sacrifice a human being, believing the spirit of the deceased would guide and guard the ship."
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True or False? "The largest birds that ever lived were the giant, flightless elephant birds (Aepyornis maximus) which lived on the island of Madagascar until c. 600 AD."
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True or False? "Until the 18th century people did not use soap to clean themselves."
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True or False? "They used to be called the Academy Award of Merit until, rumour has it, that one of the staff started calling the trophy Oscar because it reminded her of her Uncle Oscar."
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True or False? "The jaw muscle is the strongest muscle in the body."
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True or False? "Dragonflies can fly up to 30 mph."
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True or False? "Silkworms have been bred in captivity for thousands of years and as a result are domesticated."
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True or False? "Several hundred years ago one could be executed for drinking a cup of coffee in Turkey."
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True or False? "The first coin operated vending machine was made in ancient Greece around 215 BC by Hero of Alexandria."
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True or False? "US$136,248.00 was the most amount of money paid for a bottle of wine, a 1787 Chateau Lafite claret."
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True or False? "The word mayday comes from the French word "M'aidez", which means "Help me"."
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True or False? "The Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" (1979) is said to be the first rap recording."
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True or False? "The Bible is the world's best selling book, as well as the most often stolen."
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True or False? "Cashews don't come in shells because they're not nuts, they're seeds."
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True or False? "President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other simultaneously."
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True or False? "Shrews are the mammal with the highest metabolism."
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True or False? "Attila the Hun died in 453 AD, bleeding to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night."
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True or False? "Sir Francis Bacon died in 1626 of pneumonia. He was trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow."
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True or False? "No witches were burned during the Salem witch trials."
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True or False? "October 5 to October 14, 1582, did not exist, due to a decree from Pope Gregory XIII which changed the calendar from the Julian model to the Gregorian model."
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True or False? "It was taboo to eat woodpeckers in the Roman Empire."
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True or False? "Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to earn an Academy Award."
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True or False? "U.S. president Harry S Truman's middle name was "S"."
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True or False? "If any volunteer in the WWII Japanese kamikaze pilot programme wanted out they were executed as a traitor."
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True or False? "Patents for the fax machine, then the "pantelegraph", date back to 1843."
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True or False? "Dr. Eugene Shoemaker, who with his wife discovered the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet in 1994, was buried on the moon in 1999."
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True or False? "White wines do not have tannins and simply taste better cold."
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True or False? "When Connecticut outlawed ninepins in the 18th century the locals simply added another pin to give us the familiar ten pins of today."
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True or False? "7-Up became popular during WWII since producing it required less sugar than other sodas and sugar was rationed at the time."
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True or False? "The first bathrooms appeared on the Orkney Islands, off the Scottish coast, 10 millennia ago in the form of a primative drain system from their huts to the local stream."
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True or False? "Panama hats originated in Ecuador."
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True or False? "The most frequently used street name in the States is Second Street."
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True or False? "When the moon is aligned with the Earth and Sun it's called a syzygy."
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True or False? "The idea for halos on angels came from pagan sun worshipers, who wore rings of feathers on their heads to emulate the sun's rays."
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True or False? "Former US Supreme Court Justice Byron White once led the NFL in rushing."
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True or False? "If all the cans of Spam ever eaten were put end-to-end, they would circle the globe at least ten times."
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True or False? "In the U.S. alone, 3.8 cans of Spam "are consumed every second" (assuming SPAM is eaten 24 hours a day, 365.25 days a year)."
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True or False? "Jack Daniels bottles are slanted to keep the bottle from sliding out from under the car seat when pulled over by the police."
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True or False? "The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" "via", which means three streets."
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True or False? "58% of men say they are happier after their divorce or separation."
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True or False? "There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun."
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True or False? "In 1555, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. He was so thrilled with the work done by the two architects that he had them blinded so they could never be able to build anything else more beautiful.
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