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  • Snails can sleep up to 20 years.
    False. They can sleep up to 3 years.
  • Humans have 350 bones in their bodies. But when we are adults, we only have 175.
    False. Adults have 206 bones.
  • The opposite sides of a die will always add up to eight.
    False. They add to seven.
  • No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter "a" in the UK.
    True. Until you get to one thousAnd. In the UK you say one hundred, not a hundred.
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
    True
  • The word school comes from ancient Greek which means FREE TIME
    True
  • Flamingos only can eat with their heads upside down.
    True
  • This is an optical illusion.
    True.
  • A dragonfly only lives 7 days.
    False. It lives for 24 hours.
  • Astronauts get shorter in space because of no gravity.
    False. They get taller.
  • IV Is The Roman Numeral for 4. But, on the clock face, 4 is displayed as “IIII”.
    True
  • Teachers always wear tshirts
    False
  • Harry Potter was a real boy, not a fictional character.
    False. Harry Potter is a character.
  • The Hawaiian alphabet has 55 letters.
    False. It only has 12:  A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W
  • It’s physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky.
    True
  • The longest word with one syllable in the English is “chicken.”
    False. Chicken has 2 syllables. The longest is screeched.
  • You can sneeze with your eyes open.
    False
  • Dreamt is the only word in English that ends in 'mt'
    True
  • An octopus has 3 hearts, 9 brains & blue blood.
    True
  • There are more people than chickens in the world.
    False. It's exactly the other way around. There are more chickens than people.