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Interesting Facts True Or False #1

Do you read Jetpunk's interesting facts?
Quiz by KiloNova
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Last updated: August 8, 2023
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1. Despite being near the shore of Africa, Madagascar was originally settled by people from the island of Borneo, over 7000 kilometers away.
True
False
2. A full-scale nuclear war between the United States and Russia, which together hold more than 85% of the world's nuclear weapons, would kill 120 million people directly and more than 2 billion indirectly by starvation during a 'nuclear winter'.
True
False
3. From 300 B.C. to the present, the number of Greek speakers in the world has held steady at around 10 million.
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False
4. About 25.3% of the soldiers who died in the Vietnam War were American.
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False
5. A pterodactyl is not a dinosaur.
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False
6. Muphry's Law states that anytime you criticize someone's spelling or grammar, there will be a spelling or grammar mistake in your criticism.
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False
7. According to the Global Slavery Index, there are 18 million people living in slavery in India. This is four times greater than the number of slaves in the United States at the peak of American slavery.
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False
8. In 2020, due to Covid, there were 13% fewer miles driven in the U.S. than in 2019. Despite this, traffic fatalities increased by 8%.
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False
9. The record for the fastest manned jet aircraft is held by the SR-91 Blackbird, whose record speed of 1,258.4 miles per hour was recorded in 1992.
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False
10. There are over 62 trillion ways to checkmate a player in chess.
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False
11. The largest known star, UY Scuti, is estimated to be about 10 billion times larger than the sun by volume.
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False
12. In 1698, Russia created a beard tax to encourage men to shave their beards and look more like men in other parts of Europe.
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False
13. The village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, in Wales, lengthened its name to Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch for promotional purposes in the 1860s.
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False
14. Every U.S. state has increased in population since 1960 with one exception - New Mexico.
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False
15. The U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an armed atomic bomb over South Carolina in 1958.
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False
4 Comments
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Level 59
Aug 8, 2023
Define dinosaur. Also, small spelling mistake in 12.
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Level 43
Aug 8, 2023
The point is to define dinosaur yourself.
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Level 78
Aug 12, 2023
Excellent series, although I think it would be improved by explanations after the quiz is taken. e.g. What was the fastest manned jet ?
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Level 43
Aug 12, 2023
Yes, it would. I'll start working on that.