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That Can't Be True! #3

Pick the true statement among a group of falsehoods.
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1. Which statement is true?
The most expensive cheese in the world is made from whale milk.
About 60% of vegans eat animal products in secret.
Clouds are extremely heavy.
The expression “Light as a cloud” couldn’t be further from the truth. At ½ gram per cubic meter, the weight of cumulus clouds can really add up when you consider how long and wide they can get.
2. Which statement is true?
People who have neanderthal DNA are more likely to excel in carpentry.
There’s a precise speed where jogging becomes running.
There is scientific proof to support the claim that the earth is 10,000 years old.
You might think the two are basically the same thing, but according to conditioning coach Mike Antoniades, in an article for BBCSport, jogging means moving at “speeds less than 6 mph.” Any faster than that, and it’s technically running.
3. Which statement is true?
We only use 10% of our brains.
Goosebumps are caused by a muscle.
Mammals came into existance after dinosaurs died out.
Arrector pili muscles, fan-shaped muscles at the base of each hair, are responsible for goosebumps—which contract when the body is cold in an effort to generate heat and cause a person’s hair to “stand up straight” on their skin.
4. Which statement is true?
There is a dark side of the moon.
There’s a peak cuteness for puppies.
Sugar makes children hyperactive.
A study comparing how people viewed the “cuteness” of dogs found that most reached their highest levels of cuteness when they reached the ages of six to eight weeks old.
5. Which statement is true?
Coffee is made from beans.
Fried maple leaves are a popular snack in Japan.
Antibiotics kill viruses.
Known as momiji, maple leaves collected from the ground, preserved in salt barrels then fried in tempura style sweet batter are an unexpectedly delicious and beloved seasonal snack in Japan.
6. Which statement is true?
Humans have just five senses.
The Great Wall of China can be seen from space.
The sharpest memories for the elderly are from early adulthood.
Called “the reminiscence bump,” this psychological concept holds that as adults reflect on events of their lives, they remember more events from their teens and twenties than from any other time in their lives. According to psychologist Dan McAdams of Northwestern University, this phenomenon grows out of the fact that this period of one’s life is important in shaping one’s identity or “life story.”
7. Which statement is true?
Fortune cookies are an ancient Chinese tradition.
There is a species of jellyfish that never dies.
Different parts of your tongue detects different tastes.
Known as Turritopsis dohrnii—or colloquially, the immortal jellyfish—this animal is able to revert back into its adolescent state after going through adulthood, and repeats this process for all eternity.
8. Which statement is true?
Oxford University Is older than the Aztec Empire.
Penguins mate for life.
Vitamin C is an effective treatment for a cold.
The Aztec Civilization was founded in 1325. As early as 1096, teaching had already started in Oxford. By 1249, the University of Oxford had grown into a full-fledged university, replete with student housing at the school’s three original “halls of residence”.
9. Which statement is true?
The forbidden fruit mentioned in the Book of Genesis was an apple.
Princeton University’s first graduate student was a U.S. president
The word sushi means "raw fish".
Princeton University has been around since 1746, but the school didn’t start officially awarding doctorates until 1879. And though it took more than a century for the university to officially begin graduate studies, it actually had its first graduate student back in 1771. His name was James Madison—the fourth President of the United States.
10. Which statement is true?
Caffeine dehydrates.
Abraham Lincoln had a paternal twin sister.
People in Medieval England had rap battles.
Before rap battles, there was “flyting,” a type of trading of insults that was popular from the 5th to the 16th centuries in England and Scotland. As Atlas Obscura describes it, “Participants employed the timeless tools of provocation and perversion as well as satire, rhetoric, and early bathroom humor to publicly trounce opponents,” and even society’s elite would join in these battles of wits.
11. Which statement is true?
The bible mentions three wise men who visited Christ after His birth.
Salty water boils quicker than unsalted water.
The official bird of Redondo Beach, California, is the Goodyear Blimp.
In 1983, the coastal city adopted a resolution to make the legendary aircraft the official city bird, even presenting a plaque to a team from Goodyear Airship Operations to commemorate the decision.
12. Which statement is true?
The original Back to the Future time machine was a fridge.
Cleopatra was transgender.
There is scientific proof that MSG causes headaches.
The DeLorean was not always the way Marty McFly was supposed to travel to the past. As Slashfilm explains, in the original draft of Back To The Future, the time machine was attached to a refrigerator, and “taken to the Nevada desert test site for the atomic bomb, where it was strapped into the back of a truck and driven into the atomic explosion in order to harness the power from the nuclear explosion.
13. Which statement is true?
A penguin has a knighthood.
Vaccines cause autism.
Humans and dinosaurs co-existed.
In 2008, a penguin living in the Edinburgh Zoo, named Nils Olav III was knighted. The penguin is the mascot of the King of Norway’s Guard, making it a special figure for the country’s military and the knighting of this particular one an opportunity to celebrate the relations between the two countries. It went over so well, that in 2016, he was promoted to Brigadier.
14. Which statement is true?
You should never wake a sleepwalker.
Bananas grow on trees.
The Twitter bird has a name.
Larry. Supposedly, the blue bird was named after former NBA player Larry Bird, who used to play for co-founder Biz Stone‘s home-state team, the Boston Celtics.
15. Which statement is true?
There is a Museum of Failure.
Milk increases mucus.
Bats are blind.
Boasting “a one of a kind international collection of more than 100 innovation failures,” the touring Museum of Failure features displays on such bad ideas as Harley-Davidson perfume, Colgate beef lasagna, and Google Glass.
16. Which statement is true?
Shaving thickens hair.
Reading glasses weaken eyesight.
King Tut owned a meteorite dagger.
King Tutankhamen had lots of cool toys, but one of his most intriguing may have been a dagger, discovered in his tomb in 1925, made of meteoric metal.
17. Which statement is true?
Bulls hate the color red.
Alcohol keeps you warm.
Female kangaroos have two uteri and three vaginas.
In order to perpetually work on continuing their lineage, female kangaroos are equip with two uteri and three vaginas (with the outside two being connected to the uteri and the middle vagina devoted entirely to giving birth). The same goes for koalas.
18. Which statement is true?
Alergies to pears are on the rise aound the world.
Your personality stabilizes when you’re an adult.
The filling in Kit Kats is made from damaged Kit Kats.
All those Kit Kat bars that are somehow imperfect during production—due to air bubbles, weirdly shaped wafers or some other issue—are not thrown away or given away, but instead ground up into a fine paste and turned into a filling that’s then incorporated back into the production process to create new, perfect bars.
19. Which statement is true?
All of George Foreman’s sons have the same name.
Touching toads causes warts.
Bagpipes originated in Scotland.
Things probably get a bit confusing around the Foreman household, seeing as all of the boxer’s sons are named George Edward—and there are five of them. When asked why they all have the same name, Foreman said, “I named all my sons George Edward Foreman so they would always have something in common. I say to them, ‘If one of us goes up, then we all go up together, and if one goes down, we all go down together!'”
20. Which statement is true?
There’s an underwater postbox in the Pacific.
SOS stands for "Save Our Ship".
Celebrities die in threes.
According to the Guinness World Records, the Japanese fishing town of Susami houses the world’s deepest underwater postbox. Situated 10 meters underwater, the box gets anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 pieces of mail every year—though depositing mail in the box requires a diving suit, water-resistant postcards, and a special oil-based paint marker.
21. Which statement is true?
The youngest Olympian was 10 years old.
On average, people swallow eight spiders a year while sleeping.
A viral story can break the Internet.
According to Olympic records, the youngest athlete to ever become a medalist in the Olympics was Greek gymnast Dimitrios Loundras, who finished third at the 1896 Olympic Games when he was ten-and-a-half years old.
22. Which statement is true?
Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national symbol of the U.S.A.
Dolphins go on killing sprees.
Slaves built the Egyptian pyramids.
We think of dolphins as fun-loving and friendly, but when they don’t get sexually satisfied, they can get pretty nasty. Scientists have found that young male dolphins go on the attack, killing fellow porpoises, when they are sexually frustrated.
23. Which statement is true?
Fish-and-chips gelato is a thing.
All of your fingernails grow at the same rate.
Ninjas always wore black.
The fast food shop Kailis garnered a good bit of publicity a few years ago when it turned two great things into one weird thing—fish and chip gelato. Reports of its taste were not as bad as one might expect, but that’s likely because, as one person put it, it “didn’t taste like fish and chips.”
24. Which statement is true?
People are more creative when they brainstorm in groups.
Just 18 out of 1 million LEGO pieces are defective
Opposites attract and make better partners.
The molds manufacturing process of LEGO bricks is so accurate and effective, that just 18 out of 1 million are found to be defective, according to the company.
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Level 37
Feb 9, 2019
Number six (6) is not true in all cases. My most vivid memories are from the age of 7 onward.
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Level 45
Feb 9, 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscence_bump