True or False? No number before 1,000 contains the letter A
True: But there are plenty of E’s, I’s, O’s, U’s, and Y’s.
True or False? Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time.
True: The mother spends six months so devoted to protecting the eggs that she doesn’t eat. The babies are the size of a grain of rice when they’re born.
True or False? There can be volcanos on the moon.
True: There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive. Most of the volcanoes probably stopped one billion years ago.
True or False? The tiny pocket in jeans was made to hold loose change.
False: The tiny pocket in jeans was made to hold a pocket watch.
True or False: Bees can only fly 20 feet high.
False: Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.
True or False? Sloths have more neck bones than giraffes.
True: There are seven vertebrae in the neck of giraffes, and in most mammals, but there are ten in a sloth.
True or False? Theodore Roosevelt hated animals.
False: Theodore Roosevelt had a pet hyena was famous for his many other pets, including a one-legged rooster, a badger, a pony, and a small bear.
True or False? Tornadoes can cause "fish rain."
True: Tornadoes can develop over water and land. As far as we know, there's no tornado powerful enough to pick up sharks, but a fish-nado is entirely possible.
True or False? Cats have a total of 20 toes.
False: A cat has a total of 18 toes. 5 toes on the front paws and 4 on the back paws.
True or False? Movie Trailers were always played before the movie started.
False: They “trailed” the feature film—hence the name.
True or False? A Giraffes tongues are the size of a 12 inch ruler.
False: Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long.
True or False? Humans have jumped further than horses in the Olympics.
True: The Olympic world record for the longest human long jump is greater than the world record for longest horse long jump
True or False? Your nose and ears will never stop growing.
True: Human noses and ears keep getting bigger, even when the rest of the body’s growth has come to a halt.
Tue or False? Armadillo shells are bulletproof.
True: In fact, one Texas man was hospitalized when a bullet he shot at an armadillo and bounced back at him.
True or False? Cows only have top teeth.
False: Cows don’t have upper front teeth. They use that with their bottom teeth to pull out grass.
True or False? The longest English word is 11 letters long.
False: The longest English word is over 45 letters long
True or False? The Moon can't have "Earthquakes."
False: Just as earth has earthquakes, the moon has...you guessed it, moonquakes.
True or False? Water is already wet, meaning you can't make it wetter....
False: Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter.
True or False? Bananas can glow under a black light.
True: Ripe bananas appear yellow due to organic pigments called carotenoids. When bananas ripens, it appears blue under UV lights.
True or False? Bees only make yellow honey.
False: Beekeepers nearby noticed that their bees were making “unnatural shades of green and blue” honey.
True or False? Dinosaurs only lived on a couple of continents due to weather.
False: Dinosaurs lived on every continent on Earth. Scientists also believe that there were smaller dinosaurs with bones too small to fossilize.
True or False? The current American flag was designed by a high school student.
True: It started as a school project for Bob Heft’s junior-year history class, and it only earned a B- in 1958.
True or False? Space smells like food.
True: according to some former astronauts, space has a distinct odor that hangs around post-spacewalk. They've described it as "hot metal" or "searing steak"
True or False? Turkeys can blush.
True: When turkeys are scared or excited, the pale skin on their head and neck turns bright red, blue, or white.