20 True or False Statements to Challenge Your Knowledge
Challenge Your Family and Friends With These True or False Statements.
British spelling.
Detailed explanations.
True or False?
1: A collection of hedgehogs is called a prickle.
2: Pluto is no longer a planet, it is now known as an asteroid.
3: Planet Mars has one moon.
4: A certain species of bamboo can grow 1 metre (40 inches) in a day.
5: Light leaving the Moon takes 5 seconds to reach the Earth.
6: Some trees can live for 5,000 years.
7: The pygmy shrew’s heart beats 700 times per minute.
8: A polar bear’s skin is pink.
9: We share 70% of our DNA with a garden slug.
10: Pigs can’t sweat.
11: There are 32 bones in a human foot.
12: Space begins 200 kilometres, (124 miles) above sea level.
13: A blue whale weighs more than the extinct Argentinosaurus.
14: A woman had 11 live babies in a single birth.
15: The deepest part of any ocean is 11 kilometres, (6.8 miles).
16: Helium (He) is the second lightest element.
17: Potatoes are 80% water.
18: Lake Superior is the largest fresh water lake in the world by surface area.
19: On average, we humans breathe in around 6,000 litres (1,100 gallons) of air per day.
20: The Solar System takes 130 million years to orbit the centre of our galaxy once.
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1: True: A good choice of a collective name.
2: False: Pluto is now known as a dwarf planet.
3: False: Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos.
4: True: Some species of bamboo are the fastest growing land plants.
5: False: light takes just over one second to reach the Earth.
6: True: Bristlecone pines grow in California’s White Mountains.
7: False: Surprisingly, the pygmy shrew’s heart beats 1,200 times per minute.
8: False: a polar bears skin is black.
9: True: we also share 98.8% of our DNA with chimpanzees.
10: True: But they can loose heat in other ways.
11: False: A human foot has 26 bones.
12: False: Space begins 100 kilometres, (62 miles) above sea level.
13: True: The blue whale is the heaviest known animal to have ever lived.
14: False: Arguably, 9 or 10 is the most human babies born alive at a single birth.
15: True: Imagine the pressure at that depth of water.
16: True: Hydrogen (H) is the lightest element and Helium (He) is the second lightest.
17: True: Only 20% solid.
18: True: Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,700 square miles (82,100 square kilometres).
19: False: We breathe in around 11,000 litres (2,400 gallons) of air per day.
20: False: The Solar System, travelling at 828,000 kilometres per hour (515,000 miles per hour), takes 230 million years to complete one orbit around the centre of our galaxy the Milky Way.
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