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The Hardest "True Or False" Quiz You'll Take Today

It [strikes in the same place quite a lot](http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/myth-lightning-never-strikes-twice/19890). The Empire State Building gets struck over 100 times a year.

False.

Lightning never strikes in the same place twice.

You can watch [a video of Chris Hadfield demonstrating it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36xhtpw0Lg) on board the International Space Station if you want.

That's true.

If you cry in space the tears just stick to your face.

[Only one half of an earthworm can regenerate](http://www.livescience.com/38371-two-worms-worm-cut-in-half.html) when it's cut in half, not both halves.

False!

If you cut an earthworm in half, both halves can regrow their body.

It's not as good as a dog's, but the human nose [is still pretty incredible](http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/20/we-can-distinguish-between-at-least-a-trillion-smells/).

It's true!

Humans can distinguish between over a trillion different smells.

Lots of bones (like the cranium) [start out as several fragments at birth](http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/musculoskeletal/babies-kneecaps1.htm), then fuse together into a single bone later in life.

True!

Adults have fewer bones than babies do.

Even though he's widely believed to have been short, he was [actually above average height for his time](http://www.historyrundown.com/was-napoleon-bonaparte-really-so-short/).

That's false.

Napoleon Bonaparte was extremely short.

Goldfishes' legendarily short memory is a common belief, but [it's been debunked repeatedly](http://mentalfloss.com/article/24763/do-fish-really-have-three-second-memory). They can actually remember things for quite a long time.

It's false.

Goldfish only have a memory of three seconds.

Your body has [around ten times as many bacterial cells in it](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones/) than your own cells.

There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells.

They [really don't](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130526-do-your-nails-grow-after-death).

It's false!

Your fingernails and hair keep growing after you die.

Not all dinosaurs became extinct; some of them survived, [and every bird alive today is descended from those survivors](http://www.amnh.org/learn/dinosaurs).

Birds are dinosaurs.

U.S. taxpayers [lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/10/taxpayers-lost-105-million-on-pennies-and-nickels-last-year/).

It costs the U.S. Mint more to make pennies and nickels than the coins are actually worth.

[It really doesn't](http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html) (even though some people on the equator make a living fooling tourists into thinking it does...)

Faaaaaaalse.

Water spirals down the plughole in opposite directions in the northern and southern hemispheres.

The second man to stand on fthe moon was [the first to pee there](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090716-moon-landing-buzz-aldrin-pee.html) (into a special bag in his spacesuit) – shortly after he stepped off the ladder of Apollo 11's Lunar Module.

Buzz Aldrin was the first man to urinate on the moon.

The [official shelf life of a Twinkie is 45 days](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/09/200465360/the-science-of-twinkies-how-do-they-last-so-long). People have kept them around for longer, but they become inedible.

Twinkies have an infinite shelf life.

It's [because our voice box is lower in the throat than other primates](http://discovermagazine.com/2010/nov/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-language) (who can do both at once.) On the plus side, this means we can use language...

Humans can’t breathe and swallow at the same time.

Santa was [portrayed like that for decades before Coke got in on the act](http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/its-like-santa-isnt-real-at-all-or-something#.ti28VOD3P4).

The popular image of Santa Claus – chubby, bearded, in red and white clothes – was invented by Coca-Cola for an ad campaign.

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](http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/images/PDF/all_you_need_to_know_about_the_eiffel_tower.pdf).

It's true.

The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun.

Drinking pretty much any non-fatal amount of alcohol [won't add enough alcohol to your blood stream](http://gizmodo.com/drinking-alcohol-doesnt-actually-kill-brain-cells-1498785941) to destroy your neurons.

Drinking alcohol kills brain cells.

[Jimi Heselden died from his accident in 2010](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/segway-company-owner-james-jimi-heselden-dies-england-riding-segway-cliff-article-1.441435).

True :-(

The owner of the company that makes Segways died after accidentally driving his Segway off a cliff.

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