True or False
Instructions: Read each statement carefully and mark whether it is True (T) or False (F).
- 1.
The Great Wall of China is visible from space with the naked eye.
- 2.
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.
- 3.
Goldfish have a memory span of only three seconds.
- 4.
The human body contains more bacterial cells than human cells.
- 5.
Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
- 6.
Octopuses have three hearts.
- 7.
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth when measured from base to peak.
- 8.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
- 9.
The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world.
- 10.
Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas.
- 11.
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
- 12.
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance.'
- 13.
Water drains in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres due to the Coriolis effect.
- 14.
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun.
- 15.
Humans use only 10% of their brains.
- 16.
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.
- 17.
Sound travels faster through water than through air.
- 18.
The Amazon River is the longest river in the world.
- 19.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time, not just a figure of speech.
- 20.
Napoleon Bonaparte was unusually short for his time.