Buzz·Posted on Feb 26, 2015The Hardest "True Or False" Quiz You'll Take TodayNot everything you thought you knew might be true...by Tom PhillipsBuzzFeed Staff, UK FacebookPinterestTwitterMailLink 1. Lightning never strikes in the same place twice. JanJar/Thinkstock Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! False. It strikes in the same place quite a lot. The Empire State Building gets struck over 100 times a year. 2. If you cry in space the tears just stick to your face. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! That's true. You can watch a video of Chris Hadfield demonstrating it on board the International Space Station if you want. 3. If you cut an earthworm in half, both halves can regrow their body. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! False! Only one half of an earthworm can regenerate when it's cut in half, not both halves. 4. Humans can distinguish between over a trillion different smells. BananaStock/Thinkstock Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! It's true! It's not as good as a dog's, but the human nose is still pretty incredible. 5. Adults have fewer bones than babies do. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! True! Lots of bones (like the cranium) start out as several fragments at birth, then fuse together into a single bone later in life. 6. Napoleon Bonaparte was extremely short. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! That's false. Even though he's widely believed to have been short, he was actually above average height for his time. 7. Goldfish only have a memory of three seconds. subinpumsom/Thinkstock Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! It's false. Goldfishes' legendarily short memory is a common belief, but it's been debunked repeatedly. They can actually remember things for quite a long time. 8. There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! It's true! Your body has around ten times as many bacterial cells in it than your own cells. 9. Your fingernails and hair keep growing after you die. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! It's false! They really don't. 10. Birds are dinosaurs. danku/Thinkstock Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! True! Not all dinosaurs became extinct; some of them survived, and every bird alive today is descended from those survivors. 11. It costs the U.S. Mint more to make pennies and nickels than the coins are actually worth. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! True! U.S. taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made. 12. Water spirals down the plughole in opposite directions in the northern and southern hemispheres. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! Faaaaaaalse. It really doesn't (even though some people on the equator make a living fooling tourists into thinking it does...) 13. Buzz Aldrin was the first man to urinate on the moon. NASA/AFP / Getty Images Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! True! The second man to stand on fthe moon was the first to pee there (into a special bag in his spacesuit) – shortly after he stepped off the ladder of Apollo 11's Lunar Module. 14. Twinkies have an infinite shelf life. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! False! The official shelf life of a Twinkie is 45 days. People have kept them around for longer, but they become inedible. 15. Humans can’t breathe and swallow at the same time. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! That's true. It's because our voice box is lower in the throat than other primates (who can do both at once.) On the plus side, this means we can use language... 16. The popular image of Santa Claus – chubby, bearded, in red and white clothes – was invented by Coca-Cola for an ad campaign. Comstock/Thinkstock Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! That's false. Santa was portrayed like that for decades before Coke got in on the act. 17. The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! It's true. The metal of the tower expands in the heat of the sun, so the sun-facing side is always slightly bigger than the one facing away – making it lean as much as seven inches away from the sun. 18. Drinking alcohol kills brain cells. Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! That's false. Drinking pretty much any non-fatal amount of alcohol won't add enough alcohol to your blood stream to destroy your neurons. 19. The owner of the company that makes Segways died after accidentally driving his Segway off a cliff. Kim Carson/Thinkstock Answer Image Correct Incorrect Answer Image Correct Incorrect Correct! Wrong! True :-( Jimi Heselden died from his accident in 2010. 51 Mind-Blowing Facts About Life, The Universe, And Everything buzzfeed.com 33 “Facts” Everybody Knows That Are Actually Total Lies buzzfeed.com