It's possible to hear a lion's roar from 5 miles away.
True
Sharks can blink.
True
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
True (Hot water evaporates faster than cold, decreasing its volume and thus the time it takes to freeze.)
Olympic gold medals are made of silver.
True
Sandwiches are named after a person.
True (Sandwiches are named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an eighteenth-century aristocrat.)
A baby has more bones than an adult.
True (babies = 300, adults = 206)
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
True
The first Olympic games honored Alexander the Great.
False (they honored Zeus, the king of the Greek gods)
Polar bears have black skin.
True
In your lifetime, you'll produce enough saliva to fill three swimming pools.
False (you'll only produce enough to fill two)
Donald Duck's sister is named Donna.
False (her name is Dumbella)
A tiger has stripes on its skin.
True
The name of Batman's butler is Albert.
False (it is Alfred)
U.S. dollar bills are made from cotton.
True (75% cotton and 25% linen)
Peanuts are a nut.
False (they are closer to a bean or a legume (=palkokasvi))
About 34 billion emails are sent daily.
False (more than 340 billion emails are sent daily)
Cows sleep standing up.
True
Chocolate is lethal to dogs.
True
Nike is the Greek goddess of victory.
True
The right lung in a human is slightly smaller than the left lung.
False (the left lung is smaller to make room for the heart)
There are 100 dimples on a golf ball.
False (there are between 300 and 500)
Elvis Presley had a twin brother.
True (his twin died at birth)
Just like the U.S. has the Whitehouse, Argentina has a Greenhouse for their president.
False (they have a Pinkhouse)
Thomas Edison (the inventor of the light bulb) was afraid of the dark.
True
Fingernails grow faster than hair.
False
Before becoming queen, Queen Elizabeth was a mechanic.
True (The Queen trained as a mechanic during the WW2)
Abraham Lincoln had no middle name.
True
All the kings in a standard deck of cards have a mustache.
False (the King of Hearts does not have a mustache)
Pinocchio was the first animated, full-color Walt Disney feature film.
False (it was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves)
Porcupines (=piikkisika) can float.
True
Pigs cannot look up into the sky.
True
A sneeze is faster than cars on the freeway.
True (a sneeze is as fast as 150 km/h)
The Twitter bird's name was Larry.
True
Snoopy is yellow in Brazil.
False (Snoopy is white everywhere)
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
True
Gorillas all have blood type "B."
True
Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
False (lightning can strike anywhere multiple times)
Ostriches have the largest eyes of any living organism.
False (the giant squid does)
Eating cheese before bedtime gives you nightmares.
False
Broccoli was once banned from the White House.
True (in 1990, George H.W. Bush claimed broccoli would no longer be in the White House)
Elephants walk as quietly as cats.
True (they walk almost silently due to their padded feet)