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2016/10/01: Update September 30 DLC to final version(game was updated a few times).
2016/09/25: Added 27 missing questions due to a parsing error and added all the new questions from the September 30 DLC.
2016/09/16: Initially posted

Nearly 37% of purchased Steam games are never played.
True

USA has no official language.
True

There's a chocolate-scented flower.
True

Olympic gold medals are only 1% gold and 92.5% silver.
True

Stephen Hawking had a secret party for time travelers, and no one showed up.
True

A single asteroid can contain US$20 trillion worth of metals.
True

Czech Republic has over 15,000 people who religiously identify as a Jedi Knight.
True

Blond hair in humans developed only 11,000 years ago as an evolutionary response to the lack of sunlight in Northern Europe to enable more Vitamin D synthesis.
True

The vanilla flower blooms during only one day.
True

Medical mistakes kill over 250,000 Americans each year.
True

The Tetris theme is actually a Russian folk song called "Korobeiniki".
True

Agatha Christie was a surfer.
True

The first RollerCoaster Tycoon was written entirely in assembly code - the raw language used by CPU - by one developer.
True

Koala bears have finger prints that are identical to human fingerprints. Crime scene experts even can mistake one for the other.
True

Sharks can easily be crushed by their own body weight on land, because they lack a rib cage.
True

In 1998 Sony released a camcorder that could see through clothes.
True

The Great pyramid of Giza has 4 sides.
False

A 46 year old man from England found and attacked a 13 year old kid for killing him in Call of Duty too many times.
True

There is a tree that can grow 40 different kinds of fruit.
True

Paul McCartney composed the entire melody of the song 'Yesterday' in a dream one night.
True

WarCraft only had three developers, two of whom had never previously worked on video games.
False

One of the cosmonauts claimed that aliens came to Earth in order to stop a nuclear war against Russia.
True

Ernest Hemingway begged his wife not to send him for more electroshock treatments because he lost so much of his memory he couldn't even remember his own name.
True

Charlie Chaplin was banned from the USA in 1952.
True

La Cucaracha is a song about a cockroach.
True

There is a potato themed amusement park in Ireland.
True

The British Army has almost twice as many horses as it does tanks.
True

George R.R. Martin wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles.
True

Michael B. Jordan's father is named Michael A. Jordan.
True

German has a word for an improvement that makes things worse.
True

Rick Astley has earned almost no money from Rickrolling.
True

A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
True

The inventor of the pop-up ad later apologized for creating it.
True

I am Rich, the useless app costing $999.99, was bought by eight people before it was took down by Apple.
True

The first animal to ask an existential question was an African grey parrot. He asked what color he was.
True

Honey bees that return to the hive drunk are punished.
True

The leaning tower of Piza is the furthest leaning man-made tower.
False

US and UK overthrow first Iranian democratic government.
True

The original "Teddy Bear" was inspired by a cartoon of USA president Theodore Roosevelt.
True

Ozzy Osbourne's DNA has been sequenced to see how he's still alive after a life of hard drug use and drinking.
True

Facts are increasingly ineffective at convincing people to change their minds.
True

There is a 4000 year old clay tablet which is a customer's complaint wanting a refund.
True

Donald Duck is such an incredibly popular figure in Swedish culture that they had to outlaw voting for him.
True

Mark Whalberg served 45 days in jail for attempted murder.
True

Harvard earns so much money on interest from its endowment that it could offer free tuition to all students and still make profit on the interest.
True

Only two species have domesticated other species: humans and ants.
True

Approximately 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 21% don’t even have a savings account.
True

The Queen herself doesn’t need a passport, since all British passports are issued in her name.
True

Vikings believed that a giant goat named Heiðrún, whose udders provided an endless supply of beer, awaited them in Valhalla upon their death.
True

Google sent an email to its employees warning that a python was loose in its New York Office on April 1, 2007.
It was not a joke.
True

Polar's bear liver has a toxic amount of vitamin A in it, so consuming it will make you sick or kill you.
True

Gamers have collectively spent over 6 million years playing World of Warcraft, longer than the Human species' existence.
True

Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston both got tattoos together when "Breaking Bad" ended.
True

Beretta is the oldest gun company in the world being established 1526 in Brescia, Italy.
True

The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
True

Alabama had redefined Pi to 3.0 to bring it in line with biblical values.
False

Tea's consumption rate is higher than all other other manufactured drinks combined, including chocolate, coffee, alcohol and soft drinks.
True

In Mexico, artists can pay their taxes using artwork that they create.
True

In Ancient Rome a toga was the equivalent to a suit today.
True

Albert Einstein was offered the Presidency of Israel but turned it down.
True

Postal service within Andorra is completely free.
True

Scientist Nikola Tesla used to drink Whiskey daily, because he thought that whiskey would make him live up to 150 years.
True

The Sun loses around 4 million tons of mass per second due to fusion.
True

British accents noticeable change within the UK every 25 miles.
True

In Japan, there is a belief that if the umbrella long enough lies idle, it becomes a one-eyed and one-legged hopping demon.
True

The smallest prison in the world can hold a capacity of 2 prisoners.
True

Doritos were originally created by Disneyland to make use of left over tortillas.
True

All that remains of Shakespeare's handwriting are six signatures, none of which are spelt "Shakespeare".
True

Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world.
True

The "Pringles Man" has a name, and that name is "Julius".
True

There is a town in Norway called Hell, and it freezes over almost every winter.
True

The last king of Greece, Constantine II, won Greece's first Olympic gold medal since 1912 in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
True

Arctic reindeers' eyes change color through the seasons shifting from gold to blue.
True

An episode of Peppa Pig was banned in Australia because it taught children that spiders were not to be feared.
True

Crevice and a crevasse are not the same thing.
True

A Catholic bishop described the birth of the Universe in an explosion 7 centuries before the Big Bang theory.
True

Nails grow faster in summer.
True

On the cellular level an obsidian knife can cut between cells.
True

Bob Ross painted 3 copies of every piece of work on his show.
True

An ancient Roman lighthouse still stands in England at Dover Castle.
True

Green eye color is the rarest color found around the world.
True

A woman sued a hospital claiming a CAT Scan made her lose her psychic powers.
True

Alaska had two Fridays in succession - the only place to have ever done so.
True

If you have no debts and $10 in your pocket, you have more wealth than 25% of Americans.
True

Yuri Gagarin said "I see no god up here" when he entered space.
False

The word "bookkeeper" is the only unhyphenated English word with three consecutive double letters.
True

Yegor Letov wrote his hit song "Pro durachka" in one night with a 103 degree fever.
True

The man who created the modern American flag did so for a high school project and received a B- for it.
True

The assassin order in the Assassin's Creed video game series was based on a real order of assassins.
True

As punishment for misbehavior, Thai policemen are forced to wear a Hello Kitty armband.
True

There has never been a single recorded event where an ostrich has buried his head in the ground when threatened.
True

Iguanas have a third eye on the top of their head that is a transparent scale that detects light and dark.
True

Bicycles have no speed limits in the UK, but you can get charged with "cycling furiously".
True

There is a rare sleeping disorder that causes people to sleep for weeks at a time waking only to eat.
True

Aerosmith made more money on "Guitar Hero" than any albums.
True

The Legend of Hercules was invented by the ancient Sumerians.
False

There is the only person in medical history to have been classified as a dwarf and a giant during his lifetime.
True

When Michael Bay was a kid, he used to put firecrackers on his toy trains and film the results.
True

J.K. Rowling wanted to do a Harry Potter musical.
False

The Hill of Tara in Ireland contained the Ark of the Covenant, and the Irish were part of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
False

Body heat dissipates mainly through the head.
False

People thought the world was flat before Columbus.
False

The first constitution in Europe was the Ukrainian constitution.
False

Eritrea, not North Korea, scores as the country with the least media freedom in the world.
True

Sweden pays high school students $187 per month to attend school.
True

Bots have outnumbered humans on the Internet.
True

There is a mountain in Australia named Mt. Disappointment.
True

Pineapples were a status symbol in 18th century England. You could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
True

US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they're unwashed.
True

Rembrandt's students pranked him by painting fake coins on the floor to watch him try to pick them up.
True

Famous physicist Richard Feynman's second wife divorced him because he would do calculus "while lying in bed at night."
True

"Harambe" is a Swahili name that means working together, pulling together, helping each other, caring, and sharing.
True

The pilot episode of LOST was so expensive that the network president was fired for green-lighting it.
True

Vincent van Gogh painted "Starry Night" while he was in an insane asylum.
True

NASA no longer has the original recording of the moon landing because it has been recorded over and reused.
True

Thomas Jefferson believed that The Constitution should expire every 19 years.
True

Shooting point blank mean shooting in a range where you don't have to account for gravity.
True

The last two speakers of a dying Mexican language, Ayapaneco, refused to speak to each other because they didn't like each other.
True

The Gnarls Barkley song 'Crazy' topped the UK charts for so long it was eventually pulled so people would 'remember the song fondly and not get sick of it.'
True

The satirical news outlet "The Onion" is now worth more than most of the legitimate news outlets that it mocks.
True

Women can fly airplanes in Saudi Arabia, but can't drive cars.
True

Ramen comes from Japan but is made from Chinese ingredients.
True

Recording artist Moby gave himself that stage name because his great-great-great-uncle was author of Moby ♥♥♥♥.
True

Haiti and Lichtenstein had the same exact flag.
True

Sweden imports 80,000 tons of rubbish a year from Norway.
True

Norway will be the first country in the world to shut down FM radio and go digital instead.
True

The film The Godfather was shot in backwards.
False

There is an abandoned subway station under City Hall in New York that no train stops at but that you can see.
True

Pythagorean Theorem works in any number of dimensions.
True

Sony sold 12 million floppy disks in 2009.
True

Velociraptors were really only the size of an average dog and had feathers.
True

Nazis attempted to assassinate Winston Churchill with an exploding chocolate bar.
True

Scorpion venom is the most expensive liquid on Earth.
True

A man bought 365 Starbucks cards, registered each one for a different birthday, so he got a free birthday drink every day of the year.
True

There are 4 states that ban billboards - Hawaii, Alaska, Vermont and Maine.
True

Pushkin led his race from the Carthaginian commander Hannibal.
False

The youngest known serial killer ever is Amerjeet Sada who killed 3 young children at the age of 8.
True

The first alcohol-free bar in New Zealand went out of business five weeks after opening due to a lack of consumer interest.
True

Ukrainians founded the city of Troy, and it was built on the river Dnieper.
False

Dogs can suffer from PTSD.
True

AC/DC has 21 songs with the word "rock" in the title.
True

Greeks had no word for the color blue.
True

All ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ live in caravans.
False

In 1913 Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, and Freud were all living at the same time in Vienna, Austria.
True

There is a 42% decrease in air quality throughout the US on 4th July as a result of firework displays.
True

North Koreans that escape to South Korea are automatically granted citizenship upon arrival.
True

There is a Nobel Prize for Mathematics.
False

When asked what his IQ was, Stephen Hawking said 'I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers'.
True

The Lord of the Rings was originally based on a cereal box character.
False

Rowan Atkinson, the actor who portrays Mr. Bean, has a masters in Electrical Engineering.
True

Spirited Away director Hayao Miyazaki won every award he was nominated for from 1979 to 1998.
True

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was 5 years old.
False

In Old and Middle English, The word "the" was spelled "ye".
False

The Great Wall of China is the only human-made object visible from the Moon.
False

Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
False

Sushi means "raw fish".
False

Isaac Newton invented the game Hopscotch.
False

Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
False

The videogame Donkey Kong is based on a true story.
False

The most common street name in America is 13th Street.
False

In late 2016, Earth and Mars will be in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history.
False

„Planet of the Apes" is based on a true story.
False

The last dinosaur roamed the earth in 1923.
False

Every United States President with a beard has been a Republican.
True

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
False

A potato isn't a vegetable. It's a large bean.
False

Rhode Island is the only state without an active volcano.
False

Goldfish are neither gold nor fish.
False

The most frequently used word in the English language is „biscuit".
False

Other than man, the elk is the only animal that celebrates birthdays.
False

Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
False

Wild bananas are full of seeds, and the ones we eat have been specially bred over the years to be seedless.
True

Penguins can smell toothpaste from several miles away.
False

In China, John Steinbeck's „The Grapes of Wrath" is translated as „Angry Berries".
False

YouTube's servers cost $29 a month to run.
False

Fallout is best known for being the first video game with background music.
False

Beethoven was the first man to hear the sound of clowns arguing.
False

Koalas' teeth are strong enough to bend time and space.
False

Pigs are incredibly scared of the sound of cats meowing.
False

Elijah Wood was crowned King of Root Beer 6 times in 2011.
False

The first QR Code was used on October 8, 1990.
False

4.8% of the average human body is made of aluminum.
False

There are no windows in South America.
False

Most people can't touch glass without screaming.
False

Tigers have no sense of smell.
False

Most wallpaper is made out of recycled receipts.
False

Fingernails are about 140% stronger than iron.
False

The first pyramid that was built was intended to be in the shape of a circle.
False

Bears will not attack you if they can't see your eyes.
False

Halo 3 inspired Bill Gates to invent the Internet.
False

61% of cats prefer opera over Korean pop music.
False

The TV show Sponge Bob Square Pants is based on a true story.
False

Jim Morisson was the first person to assassinate a king of England.
False

Candy sales dropped 28% after the movie „The Social Network" was released.
False

California is clearly visible from Russia.
False

Albert Einstein was an avid bodybuilder.
False

53% of people in Cuba think that Abraham Lincoln grew up in Japan.
False

Water guns were invented to protect children from fire.
False

Penguins are only known animals to fly with no one looking.
False

Edgar Cayce correctly predicted the release date of Half-Life 3.
False

99% of Rubik's Cubes are impossible to solve.
False

Big Ben in London is leaning over so much it can now be seen with the naked eye.
True

If you earn more than US$21,000 a year, you are part of the richest 4% of the planet.
True

You are only allowed to buy a car in the Netherlands if you can prove that you own at least one bicycle.
False

Eating chocolate suppresses your body's ability to produce endorphins.
False

There are more reindeer than people in Lapland.
True

Dutch people are the tallest in the world.
False

Cracking your knuckles cause arthritis.
False

Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, is not allowed to bike to work.
True

United States and Russia signed a treaty in 1967 agreeing not to nuke the Moon.
True

„Tramp" is someone who only works when forced to.
True

The Vatican does not recognize Japan as a legitimate sovereign state.
False

Japanese version of Fallout 3 does not give the player the option to detonate the Megaton nuclear bomb.
True

Firetrucks are painted red because red paint molecules are the smallest making them the most aerodynamic.
False

The word 'evolution' appeared in print for the first time in Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' (1859).
False

Marshmallows come from trees.
False

The British Army does not have 'Royal' in its name because it was formed in the interregnum when the UK had no monarch.
True

Iceland does not have any mosquitos.
True

The Sun does not have a definite boundary.
True

Apple has a trademark on the 'i' prefix.
False

In the entire Lord of the Rings film trilogy, no two female characters ever speak to each other.
True

In Old English, 'man' was a gender neutral term. Males were known as 'wermen' and females were known as 'wifmen'.
True

In 1833, Britain used 40% of its national budget to buy freedom for all slaves in the Empire.
True

Belarus is the number one consumer of ketchup in the world.
False

February 31 was the coldest day in Florida in 1987.
False

Mathematicians have shown that Calculus can be taught to kids as young as 5.
True

Tetris Syndrome is when you play a game too long and you start to dream about it, and hallucinate about it on the edges of your vision.
True

Clint Eastwood was in a plane which crashed into the sea. He and the pilot escaped the sinking aircraft and swam 3 miles to safety.
True

Native Americans are also known as Red Indians because they supported the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
False

A man in New Jersey was charged $3,750 for a bottle of wine, after the waitress told him it was 'thirty-seven fifty'.
True

The word "furious" came from Fuhrer, because Hitler was always angry.
False

An iceberg can flip over, though it's extremely rare.
True

No species of cat can both purr and roar.
True

There’s a waterfall where nobody knows where the water goes.
True

Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.
True

Up to half of the people who buy vinyl records do not listen to them.
True

Before 2015 Japan had 67-year old ban on dancing after midnight.
True

There are ice volcanos on Pluto.
True

There’s a hedgehog cuddling cafe in Tokyo.
True

Joseph Stalin was nominated twice for the Nobel peace prize.
True

The NES and SNES console systems will turn yellow as they age.
True

New Zealand is named after Zeeland, a province of the Netherlands.
True

During the Romans' rule of Egypt, Anubis and Hermes became one god, Hermanubis.
True

Google hires camels to capture 'street view' in deserts.
True

Comedian Brooks' real name is Albert Einstein.
True

The numbers on a toaster are the toasting time in minutes.
False

Bill Gates tried to give Bolivia thousands of chickens and in doing so greatly offended the Bolivian government.
True

Surgeons will make mistakes 67% of the time, but they are mostly small and non fatal.
False

Most of people in India are Buddhists.
False

The founder and first king of Rome was named Romulus, the first emperor was named Augustus, and the last emperor was named Romulus Augustulus.
True

Flying west to east takes longer than flying east to west.
False

Too much stress makes people perform badly.
True

Between the 13th and 18th century, Europe would charge animals with crimes.
True

Overhead powerlines are made from aluminum because it is lighter, despite being less conductive than copper.
True

The Energizer battery brand stole the bunny mascot from Duracell.
True

BMW used to be a plane manufacturer, that's why their logo represents the image of a propeller.
False

US secret service agents have to buy their own suits, without any allowances.
True

A third of the human population sneezes when they look at the sun.
True

When you scratch a dog's belly and they kick, it is an involuntary reflex and is not an indication of the scratching feeling good.
True

There are 1.53 explosions per minute in Michael Bay's 2007 film Transformers.
True

The oldest known human planted tree is over 2000 years old.
True

Coal Power Plants generate more radiation than Nuclear Power Plants.
True

In 1987 a man convinced 2.8 million people to send him a penny each for his college education.
True

The worlds largest bookshelf holds 70,000 books.
True

The longest prison sentence in the world was 141,078 years.
True

Game Boy was the first video game console to be played in space.
True

The actor who plays Hodor in Game of Thrones is also a progressive house DJ.
True

An old video game console Game Boy ran at 60 FPS.
True

Straight Outta Compton was never played in Compton because the city has no movie theaters.
True

When Queen Elizabeth visited the Game Of Thrones set she refused to sit on the Iron Throne.
True

People used to download games from the radio frequencies.
True

China accounts for nearly half the world consumption of instant noodles.
True

Half of the world's roundabouts are in France.
True

432 people own half the land in Scotland.
True

Winston Churchill was half American by birth - a fact of which he was deeply proud.
True

Almost half of all college students in the USA drop out of college and never graduate.
True

Norwegians pay half tax in November, so everyone has more money for Christmas.
True

Blue is the most liked colour.
True

Mice sing just like birds, but we can’t hear them.
True

In 1970, there were half as many people in the world as there are now.
True

The human brain remains half awake when sleeping in a new environment for the first time.
True

Gabe Newell worked at Microsoft for 13 years and became a 'Microsoft Millionaire' before leaving Microsoft to found Valve.
True

Doom was so popular in 1995 that it was installed on more PCs than Windows 95.
True

Sapphires and Rubies are the same stone in different colors.
True

Pizza boxes usually can't be recycled.
True

Samaritans still exist.
True

It was once socially acceptable to mail children.
True

Scientists are now driving The Curiosity Rover backwards.
True

Roy Sullivan survived 7 lightning strikes.
True

Windows 7 Starter was originally going to restrict users to having only three applications open at a time.
True

There are no natural lakes in the state of Maryland, US.
True

Scientists at a Radio Telescope spent more than 20 years figuring out the source of a signal interfereence. The source was a microwave in the staff room.
True

There is a Death Metal band who's vocalist is a parrot.
True

Frank Zappa proposed a complete overhaul of the record industry via digital distribution in 1983.
True

Mosquitoes are most attracted to type O blood.
True

The Beatles are often credited with creating doom metal.
True

Japanese military murdered approximately 6 million civilians throughout Asia during WWII, the equivalent of 40 Hiroshima bombs.
True

Decommissioned New York City Subway cars are dumped into the ocean to provide homes for sea creatures.
True

Trees actually sleep at night, relaxing their branches after dawn and perking them up before sunrise.
True

Woodpecker damage is the biggest cause of telephone pole deterioration in the USA.
True

One of France's greatest mathematicians died in a duel at age 20.
True

"The Lion King" game led to the creation of DirectX.
True

The creator of the Sims had the idea for the game while rebuilding his life after a fire.
True

There are no bridges over the Amazon River.
True

Pokemon Gold and Silver were supposed to be the final games in the series.
True

Because Japanese sentences end in auxiliary verbs, Japanese rappers had to be very creative to make verses rhyme.
True

The game The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion has over a thousand characters, but only 13 voice actors.
True

Nicolas Cage convinced Johnny Depp to pursue acting while playing a game of Monopoly.
True

Chimpanzees routinely outperform humans in memory contests and simple strategy games.
True

Vin Diesel has played Dungeons and Dragons for over 20 years.
True

Meteriotes are cool to the touch immediately after impact.
True

Blackcurrants were previously banned in the US.
True

Switzerland has no official capital city.
True

Parkways got their name because car routes went through wooded parks within cities, which were intended to make urban air more breathable.
True

J.R.R. Tolkien asked his wife to marry him by mail after no communication with her for 5 years.
True

Lemmy has been drinking a bottle of Jack Daniels every day for 35 years.
True

The first documented cases of cancer were found on papyrus manuscripts in Egypt dating back to 3000 BC, and it says „There is no cure".
True

There are no natural White Siberian tigers.
True

Oxford University is so old that no one really even knows when it was founded.
True

All of the Professors in the Pokemon franchise share the same names as trees.
True

Hitchcock tried to buy every copy of the book „Psycho" so no one would know how it ended.
True

Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones in 2015.
True

There are no muscles in human fingers.
True

Two kids from Dublin, Ireland ran away from home and ended up in New York City.
True

During the summer, a park called Grüner See in Austria turns into a lake.
True

The Caesar salad was named after Julias Caesar.
False

Spotify has 4 million songs that haven't been played once.
True

There is an academic study of over 7000 internet cat video watchers.
True

Wolverines are being trained to find and rescue avalanche survivors.
True

An air guitar that was claimed to have been played in a Bon Jovi concert was sold on eBay for $5.50.
True

In 2016, hackers spoiled their $1 billion bank heist with a typo.
True

Goldfish were originally silver, but were bred until they became yellow.
True

There is an Australian band called 'The Beards'. Every single one of their 38 songs is about beards.
True

Spoken Ancient Greek sounded very similar to modern day Norwegian and Swedish.
True

The song 'Always look on the bright side of life' by Eric Idle is the most popular funeral song played in the UK.
True

If you try to touch a member of the Queen's Guard, they will shout 'Step back from the Queen's Guard' and point their rifle at you.
True

There is no year zero.
True

The oldest known song dates from 1400BC.
True

Orangutan means „the person of the forests" in Malay.
True

Steven Knight, creator of „Peaky Blinders", is also one of the creators of the original „Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?".
True

Japan uses advertising on young women’s thighs.
True

Butterflies drink turtle tears.
True

The car brand Cadillac was named after the founder of Detroit.
True

A French chemist unboiled an egg.
True

Geckos often lick their eyes.
True

The French words for "avocado" and "male lawyer" are the same.
True

Croissants are Austrian, not French.
True

Richard the Lionheart only spent a handful of months within in England and most likely didn't even speak the English Language.
True

We don't actually know who named Earth.
True

The Moon is spiraling away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 cm per year.
True

620 million years ago, the Earth day was 22 hours.
True

Life on Earth was present from nearly the moment the Earth cooled.
True

A town in Texas called Earth is the only place on Earth officially named Earth.
True

The first dramatic film of the Titanic sinking was released just 29 days after the event in 1912.
True

Dung beetle is the strongest creature in the world, since it can pull 1,141 times their own body weight.
True

Bernie Ecclestone worked at a pub in West London in 1914.
False

Jackie Chan was trained as an opera singer as a child.
True

The world record for the most pushups done in 1 hour is 2,298 repetitions.
True

Rockstar Games paid for Grand Theft Auto to receive negative press.
True

There was a battle called „Battle on the Frozen Fire".
False

A family named their kid Dovahkiin on the day Skyrim was released.
True

The first computer virus was created in 1949.
True

Finland and Sweden are the only countries in the world that have earned a medal at every Olympic game since 1908.
True

Jann Mardenborough became a professional race car driver by beating 90,000 people in the videogame Gran Turismo.
True

We have no idea where the body of the last Roman Emperor is buried.
True

There is a skyscraper in New York City with no windows.
True

No one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.
True

On April 18, 1930, the BBC announced, "There is no news today," and played piano music instead.
True

Someone in Colorado is breaking into homes, stealing snacks and watching animes - he steals no cash or valuables, only snacks.
True

The typical American lives no more than 18 miles from their mom.
True

There are no more World War 1 veterans left.
True

There is pepper called „Shishito pepper" grown in Japan, and only a small number of them are spicy.
True

The songs of blue whales have been becoming progressively deeper each year.
True

Tic tacs are almost pure sugar but due to their weight are allowed to be labeled as zero sugar per serving.
True

Danny Trejo often chooses to play bad guys to teach younger audiences that bad guys often die or go to prison.
True

It takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful of honey.
True

A Russian scientist hoped to achieve everlasting life by transfusing blood with others who were younger than him.
True

There's a theme park in Japan where kids can experience adult life by working and banking.
True

Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect.
True

Fear of being buried alive was widespread in the 19 century.
True

Illuminati was an actual secret society.
True

When oxygen first developed on Earth, it wiped out nearly 99% of all life.
True

Woody Harrelson's dad was a hitman.
True

Blood donors in Sweden are sent a text message every time their blood is used to save a life.
True

There are as many creatures on your body as there are people on Earth.
True

There are sea wolves that live on the coast of British Columbia.
True

Apollo astronaut lost his wedding ring during his trip to the moon and found it again during a spacewalk.
True

Ben Affleck is banned for life from playing blackjack at the Hard Rock Casino in Vegas.
True

On Earth, there was a time when forests didn't decompose; no life had evolved to eat trees yet.
True

The area surrounding Chernobyl 'will not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years'.
True

The chapter 'Jurasic Bark' of Futurama is based on a real life dog who awaited for his master 10 years after his death.
True

There's a conspiracy theory that historians manufactured 300 years of history that never happened.
True

There is a species of fish that lives on land all its adult life.
True

There are bacterial life forms that are essentially „eats" electricity.
True

Humans were almost certainly deep-sea fishing over 42,000 years ago.
True

A student from UK was bought a drink on a night out because of her looks. Two weeks later man asked her for money back.
True

The last Monarch of England was in 1707.
True

Crabs have teeth in their stomach.
True

Slayer released their album 'God Hates Us All' on September 11th, 2001.
True

Tree frogs freeze in the winter and come back to life in the spring.
True

Raccoons may wash or dunk food before eating.
True

Leeches have 300 teeth.
True

Butterflies taste with their feet.
True

There is a mathematical formula that suggests that the emergence of life is inevitable.
True

In a vacuum a feather falls just as quickly as an bowling ball.
True

"Whiskey" is a Gaelic word meaning "water of life".
True

There exists a religion called Dudeism, based on The Big Lebowsky's Dude's way of life.
True

Life expectancy in the United States is higher than in Cuba.
False

Leonardo DiCaprio was named after the famous Leonardo Da Vinci.
True

The term "Swan Song" comes from an old belief that the Mute Swan is silent its entire life until it sings one beautiful song right before it dies.
True

Legendary Sci-fi author Philip K ♥♥♥♥ spent most of his life broke and in obscurity.
True

Faking confidence can positively change your brain chemistry and your life.
True

Research has proved that the secret to happiness is to have low expectations of life.
True

Mickey and Minnie Mouse's voice actors were married in real life.
True

Bob Marley's final words to his son were 'Money can't buy life'.
True

Loneliness can be just as deadly as smoking cigarettes.
True

Scientists at Allen Telescope Array always keep champagne in their fridge in case they find signs of extraterrestrial life.
True

All scorpions glow in the dark.
True

Spiked dog collars were invented in Ancient Greece to protect dogs throats from wolves.
True

A humming bird weighs less than a penny.
True

There is a pizza place in Alaska that delivers pizzas to remote areas by plane, with no charge for delivery.
True

Two-thirds of the people on Earth have never seen snow.
True

Halo 2 on PC was delayed because a Bungie dev hid a picture of his butt in the game.
True

The Facebook Like button was originally planned to be named the Awesome button.
True

It's illegal for kids 16 and under in South Korea to play video games past midnight.
True

Halo was originally a Mac game.
True

Chinese checkers is a German variation of an American game.
True

Penny slot machines pull in more money for casinos than any other game in both wagers and wins.
True

The game "Dark Souls" was originally going to be called "Dark Ring".
True

Blade Runner was the last sci-fi movie to be made without any computerized graphics.
True

The Flaming Lips released a song sold on a hard drive encased in a real human skull.
True

Grocery stores intentionally put staple food items at the far end of stores to increase the length of time in a person spends in the store.
True

The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird on each at 242mph.
True

Toyota produced only 21 vehicles in its first year.
True

Paul McCartney wrote around 1,500 songs during his lifetime.
False

There are cities in the U.S that pay you to live there.
True

There is a flower called love-lies-bleeding.
True

Ryan Gosling, having been heavily influenced by the film First Blood, took steak knives to school and threw them at other children during recess.
True

The sun is a star.
True

There is a law in Arizona called the 'Stupid Motorist Law'.
True

Archeologists in Bulgaria uncovered a grave of a 13th century staked 'vampire'.
True

Alligators can climb trees.
True

Sheep prefer to go through doors with a picture of a smiling human over a door with a picture of an angry human.
True

Morgan Freeman played a singing vampire obsessed with vegetables.
True

The Egyptian god Kek, a god of chaos and nighttime, was represented by a frog.
True

An octopus has three hearts.
True

A banana is a berry.
True

Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.
True

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
True

Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
True

There is a video game that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.
True

Serbian men used to pretend to be vampires to seduce women.
True

Oranges has nearly twice the vitamin C of broccoli by weight.
False

Nicolas Cage is a time travelling vampire.
False

Forest fires move faster downhill than uphill.
False

Vikings wore horned helmets.
False

Honey never spoils.
True

Dinosaurs aren't actually extinct. Every bird you will ever see is an actual living dinosaur.
True

'Percent' literally means 'for every one hundred'.
True

In Japan more paper is used to make manga than toilet paper.
True

There's an end to a rainbow.
False

Penguins don't have knees.
False

Glass is a slow moving liquid.
False

Bats are blind.
False

Vanilla comes from Orchids.
True

Nicolas Cage has won an Oscar for Best Actor.
True

Earthworms are native to North America.
False

China only has one timezone.
True

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
True

Mammoths were lumbering around Siberia when The Egyptians were making pyramids.
True

Sharks are older than trees.
True

Sugar makes children hyperactive.
False

Cucumbers are not considered a type of berry.
False

In Australia, there are drop bears that fall on you.
False

You can't see your shadow in a mirror.
False

Magnets do not work in space.
False

The founder of Facebook was once a homeless man.
False

The brain is 95% fat.
False

73% of rifle owners are hunters.
False

Everytime the Earth makes a full orbit around the Sun it loses 0.04% of its mass.
False

Light is actually the absence of dark.
False

Robert Downey Jr. once worked for McDonalds.
False

Sunrises have a yellow tint and sunsets have a red tint because of the Doppler effect.
False

Apples contain cyanide.
True

Space is just as empty as the atom.
True

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
True

Rome, Italy is further south than New York City.
False

Penguin is the mascot of Linux because its creator Linus Torvalds was bitten by a penguin.
True

Rabbits have best friends.
True

Fortune cookies were invented in China.
False

There are more McDonald’s than public libraries in the US.
False

Hippo milk is pink.
True

Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
True

There is more fresh water contained in Loch Ness than in all rivers and lakes in England and Wales combined.
True

There used to be a flying reptile that was as tall as a giraffe.
True

Cosmic rays from outer space cause glitches in your electronics.
True

Sandwiches taste better when you cut them diagonally.
False

„The Hunger Games" is based on a true story.
False

Olives are just pickled green grapes.
False

In Russia, it is illegal to applaud in public.
False

Bananas grow on trees.
False

Going out with wet hair increases your chances of catching a cold.
False

Black holes are actually black.
False

Vin Diesel is actually an albino black man.
False

Coconuts are mammals because they have hair and produce milk.
False

Obama has attempted multiple times to pass a law that allows a third term for minorities.
False

Goats lay eggs.
False

Neapolitan ice cream has strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla because those were Napoleon Bonaparte's favorite flavors.
False

If a panda is struck by lightening its black fur turns white.
False

Summer is caused by Earth being closer to the Sun.
False

Microwaves cook food from the inside out.
False

Cockroaches are super resistant to radioactivity.
False

The Aztecs believed Cortes and his men were gods.
False

Goldfish only have a ten second memory span.
False

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the first computer.
False

During the development of Doom, id Software sacrificed three goats, to ensure the demons were as scary as possible.
False

Karl Marx's beard was fake.
False

Cars frequently explode after crashing.
False

Dogs see in black and white.
False

Yoyos were originally used as weapons in the Philippines.
False

Camels store water in their humps.
False

Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world.
False

The sun is yellow.
False

The Invasion of Normandy was the largest invasion in history.
False

Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb.
False

Einstein failed math in grade school.
False

The reason that dogs love squeaky toys is because the sound reminds them of a smaller prey animal getting killed.
True

The sky is blue because it is a reflection of the ocean.
False

Corn is a type of grass.
True

If you stand in front of a microwave, you'll get radiation poisoning.
False

Frankenstein was not the name of the monster in the novel.
True

More Russians died on the Eastern Front of World War 2 every single day than Americans died on D-Day.
True

Vladimir Putin has the most followers on Twitter of any world leader.
False

A monkey adopted and raised two baby white tigers after a hurricane.
True

There is a German word for a face that badly needs a punch.
True

Finland is part of Scandinavia.
False

Chimpanzees can identify each other from pictures of their butts.
True

It's legal to divorce your partner via text message in UK.
False

By law, only dead people can appear on U.S. currency.
True

Google's artificial intelligence robot says that the purpose of living is „to live forever".
True

Kurt Cobain's daughter doesn't like Nirvana.
True

The Vatican City drinks more wine than anywhere else in the world.
True

In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
True

The first movie in color was made in 1930.
False

The roar of a lion can be heard from 8 kilometers away.
True

The Romans discovered Brazil.
False

Mail was delivered 12 times per day in Victorian London.
True

Some black bears are born white.
True

There is no place in England that you are more than 52 miles away from the sea.
True

Hedgehogs can run a top speed of 4mph.
True

Gary Oldman is older than Gary Numan.
False

Pineapples take roughly 1.5 to 3 months to grow.
False

Squids have doughnut shaped brains surrounding their throat.
True

Fax machines could send photographs from one device to another over telephone lines in 1902.
True

Humans are more genetically similar to dogs than cats.
False

There are polar bears in Antarctica.
False

Sword-billed hummingbird has a bill longer than the rest of its body.
True

Kangaroos are right-handed.
False

Screaming at hard disks diminishes their performance.
True

The earliest citation for the verb ‘unfriend’ is from 1659.
True

It takes about 50 glasses of water to grow the oranges to make one glass of orange juice.
True

The 3 tallest statues in the world are of Napoleon.
False

The word „idiot" came from Ancient Greece.
True

Geese are the only species other than humans capable of feeling hatred.
False

There are more tigers privately owned by US citizens than in the wild worldwide.
True

McDonald's first menu items were hot-dogs.
True

Mozzarella was the name of Cleopatra's husband, who invented cheese.
False

Wolves evolved into dogs about 5,000 years ago.
False

Dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand pointing.
True

Earth is the only known place where a fire can occur naturally.
True

There are infinitely-many different types of infinity, each one bigger than the last.
True

Wherever you go, there you are.
True

Typewriter is the longst word you can type on a keyboard using 1 row of keys.
True

Human eyes don't grow.
True

If the sun suddenly exploded, it'd take 8 minutes before we knew about it.
True

Brain-eating amoeba exist.
True

Inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster could not play guitar.
True

UK is the only country not required to name itself on its postage stamps.
True

The at-sign, @, is a modern invention.
False

The сontinent with the highest average education level is Antarctica.
True

Polar bears and penguins lives together in the wild.
False

There is a 6000-year-old tree in South Africa that has a bar inside.
True

Steve Jobs did not let his kids use iPads and limited their use of technology to a minimum.
True

According to astronauts, moondust smells like gunpowder.
True

The world's first working fully automatic digital computer was made in 1941.
True

Since 1945, the United States has lost 11 nuclear weapons.
True

Nintendo has such a large cash reserve it could lose US$250 million every year and wouldn't go bankrupt until 2052.
True

Aluminum can be recycled over and over again without any loss to quality.
True

Squirrels will adopt other squirrels babies if they are abandoned.
True

It is illegal to ride a hoverboard scooter in public in the UK.
True

Google was originally called Backrub.
True

There is no Internet on the way up to Mount Everest.
False

Emotional tears contain leucine enkephalin, a natural painkiller.
True

Lead was used as an artificial sweetener in Ancient Rome.
True

Some monkeys and apes are able to recognize when a situation is unfair.
True

80% of volcanic eruptions happen underwater.
True

There's a nightclub inside a prison in Venezuela.
True

A human baby has over 60 more bones than an adult.
True

1 in 8 American workers has been employed by McDonald's.
True

In English-speaking countries, the most popular names for dogs are Max and Molly.
True

The Caesar Salad at McDonalds is more fattening than their hamburgers.
True

„Flammable" and „inflammable" mean the same thing.
True

Almost all cultivated carrots were purple or white before the 17th century.
True

3 of the 5 wealthiest people in Brazil got rich off beer.
True

4 of the 5 wealthiest people in Russia got rich off vodka.
False

Some people are allergic to Wi-Fi.
True

Lead guitarists of ZZ Top were once offered $1,000,000 to shave their beards.
True

There's a penguin in Japan that wears a penguin backpack and goes into the market to eat fish.
True

French study found that bras are a 'false necessity'.
True

Arnold Schwarzenegger used to give his fellow bodybuilders false advice so he'd easily beat them during competitions.
True

Microsoft Kinect sensors protect the Korean Demilitarized Zone for South Korea.
True

US President Grover Cleveland bought a baby carriage for a child who would later become his wife.
True

The island of Taiwan is closer to Mainland China than to Japan.
False

Sony tried to trademark the term 'Let's Play'.
True

8th January 1836 is the last day in history that the USA had no national debt.
True

South Koreans are required by law to use Internet Explorer for shopping and banking.
True

The world's oldest "Yo mama" joke is 3,500 years old.
True

Mars once experienced massive tsunamis which had waves over 400-feet-tall.
True

The Dutch police are training eagles to take down drones.
True

Japan has more Flamenco dance studios than Spain.
True

Burning Man festival generates seismic vibrations.
True

US has around 1,000 professional mermaids.
True

The first computer program that was written by Bill Gates was Minesweeper.
False

The Egyptian Pyramids were made by slaves.
False

The first microprocessor was made by Intel.
False

Green olives and black olives are different species.
False

Coca-Cola is officially sold in North Korea and Cuba.
False

The inventor of white out was fired from her job for not whiting out a mistake she made.
True

The favorite food in Microsoft Campus is free candies.
False

Holland is another name for the Netherlands.
False

There are a lot of cactuses in Sahara.
False

In Bram Stokers original novel, Dracula is killed by sunlight.
False

It is legal to not flush the toilet in Singapore.
False

Surgical masks in Japan are used to avoid conversation with strangers.
True

Cockroaches are so repulsed by humans that if they're touched by a human, not only do they run away, but they wash themselves.
True

Microwaving food diminish the nutrients.
False

Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Goldeneye, Fallout, Banjo-Kazooie, Prey and Duke Nukem Forever were all revealed at E3 1997.
True

The first rocking chairs only rocked forwards.
False

The observation of a quantum particle can change how it behave not only in the future, but in the past.
True

George Washington's false teeth were made from wood.
False

Dictionaries and encyclopedias include false entries to catch plagiarizers.
True

The design of Mario was inspired by pictures of Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
False

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, didn't learn how to ride a bike until he was 25.
False

It's illegal to burn the Danish flag in Denmark.
False

Pringles are technically not potato chips but a slurry of rice, wheat, corn, and some potato flakes.
True

The Windows XP background is one of the most viewed photos in history.
True

The Roman Empire was the largest empire in history.
False

The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy.
False

The word 'Hello' means goodbye in Hungary.
True

Jonathan Ive has worn what appears to be the same G-Star T-Shirt in every Apple product introduction video since 2000.
True

Sometimes sharks rescue sailors.
True

Madrid is the largest city in the world inaccessible by road.
False

Eating a lot of onions will make you sleepy.
True

Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside.
True

Popcorn has existed for about 6000 years.
True

People think more rationally in their second language and make better choices.
True

Multilinguals don't change their personalities when they switch between languages.
False

Hello Kitty is not a cat - she's a British girl.
True

Disney considered creating a park called dedicated to villains.
True

Blind people smile even tho they have never seen anybody else smile.
True

Japan does not officially recognize South Korea.
False

Ancient Greek marble statues always were white.
False

Famous guitarist Jimmy Page's first musical instrument was the saw.
False

The first vending machine was invented in the first century A.D.
True

Otters sleep holding hands.
True

Russia didn't consider beer to be alcohol until 2011.
True

Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed.
True

Lobsters are functionally immortal.
True

Benjamin Franklin designed a device similar to a modern cellphone.
False

Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional is a five year old boy.
True

Japan experiences approximately 75 percent of all tornadoes in the world.
False

Lip on lip kissing is a universal human trait.
False

The Emperor of Japan is forbidden by law to eat Fugu.
True

Walter White is the name of the 15th President of the United States.
False

Overwatch only had a development team of four people.
False

Bethesda's first PC title was The Elder Scrolls.
False

The title of the famous Led Zeppelin song Black Dog has nothing to do with the lyrics.
True

Steven Spielberg is the creator of the Battlefield video game series.
False

The circle is the only figure which has the same width in all directions.
False

The capital of Australia is Sydney.
False

Salty water boils quicker.
False

When a car's speed doubles, its stopping distance does too.
False

The Earth is less than 10,000 years old.
False

Sharks are immune to cancer.
False

Christopher Columbus made the natives each bring him gold every three months. Those who didn't bring gold in time had their hands amputated and were left to bleed to death.
True

Lord Byron kept a pet bear while he was at Trinity College.
True

Pepperoni is an Italian food.
False

Spiders kill at least 100 people every year in Australia.
False

Pigtails were illegal in China until 1937.
True

Birthday cakes originated in ancient Greece.
True

Raccoons have the most complex language of any mammal barring primates. They often give 'names' to places and objects, even people!
True

The iPhone's codename was M68 - and it was really, really secret.
True

The tuxedo originated in England.
False

Potato originated in the Ireland.
False

The Hundred Years war ended after 100 years.
False

The Salem Witches were burned.
False

Tiffany's made Civil War swords.
True

Turkey has the largest postal network in the world.
False

Van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.
True

Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
True

Fast food restaurants use yellow, orange and red because those are the colors that stimulate hunger.
True

Cherries are a member of the rose family.
True

Iron Man was created by Robert Downey Jr.
False

Instead of 'Once upon a time,' many Korean folktales begin with 'Back when tigers used to smoke...'
True

A Minnesota father raised his son to speak Klingon for the first 3 years of his life.
True

Harrison Ford became a roadie for The Doors while working as a carpenter.
True

One tiger killed 430 people.
True

The Byzantine Empire lasted over twice as long as the Roman Republic.
True

Paper money in the United States is made of 75% cotton, 25% linen and 0% paper.
True

Deleting system32 folder makes your PC faster.
True

Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
True

A hotdog is a sandwish.
False

Words such as moose, skunk, raccoon, pecan, and squash, all originate from the language of the now-extinct Algonquian tribe.
True

Reddit is a bottomless pit where you and I are wasting away the only life we will ever have.
True

Rain can physically be darkened into black rain as the result of nuclear fallout. 12am - is midnight.
True

There's a gigantic Supervolcano underneath Yellowstone National Park that is quite active.
True

Rebecca Black donated all proceeds from 'Friday' to relief efforts in Japan.
True

Rain can physically be darkened into black rain as the result of nuclear fallout. 12am - is midnight.
True

Swedish police arrested man in 'drugs bust' after finding huge stash of sugar in car.
True

That the reason you never see a baby pigeon is because they live in the nest for 30 days, at which point they look like adult pigeons.
True

United States almost converted completely to the Metric System with the Metric Conversion Act of 1975.
True

The Allies calculated the number of tanks being manufactured by Germans during WW2 by using the serial number of captured/destroyed tanks and statistics.
True

Before alarm clocks, people were employed as 'knocker uppers' to go around and knock on doors to wake people up.
True

Hans Steininger, the man said to have the longest beard in the world, died after he tripped over his beard and broke his neck running away from a fire.
True

Every year on Aug 5, the Curiosity Rover sings itself a happy birthday song.
True

NHL was started because five of the six team owners in the National Hockey Association didn’t like the sixth guy and wanted to start a league without him.
True

CEO and co-founder of Spotify was also CEO of uTorrent.
True

Due to over feeding by humans, most ducks are now allergic to gluten.
False

Human finger nails start at the wrist.
False

The red-eyed black squirrel, found in the Amazon, is the only known squirrel to lay eggs.
False

New evidence found near the base of Stonehenge suggests that it was once used as a large makeshift dodgeball arena.
False

Rabbits cry through their noses.
False

A shared toothbrush is the cause of 54% of all Alzheimer's cases worldwide.
False

Ducks can't taste salt.
False

Gorillas were trained to use cell phones by Brazilians in 1989.
False

Levitation is illegal in Arkansas.
False

Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan.
True

Water guns were invented to protect children from fire.
False

[08:54:44.857] "Pancakes are one of mankind's oldest prepared foods.
True
Desc: Virtually every culture has their own version of them.

There is no word for "please" in Japanese.
False
Desc: Actually, there is no word for "please" in Danish.

The first design document for a vast space exploration video game with 10 billion planets was written in 1983.
True
Desc: It was done by American astronomer Carl Sagan.

There is a garden in England filled only with plants that can kill you.
True
Desc: Don't touch or smell any of those flowers and plants, since they could kill you.

Leprechauns taste like chicken.
False
Desc:

In North Korea, you are forced to choose one of 28 government-approved haircuts.
True
Desc: Breaking the rules could leave people facing a brush with the law.

Turkeys are actually a very large type of moss.
False
Desc: Turkeys are intelligent and sensitive animals that are highly social.

Windows Vista was the biggest leap forward in computing history.
False
Desc: No. Just no.

Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets.
True
Desc: They take out the coins and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.

Apple is trying to patent a paper bag.
True
Desc:

The red-eyed black squirrel is the only known squirrel to lay eggs.
False
Desc:

Eminem's mom, Debbie, sued him for 10 million dollars.
True
Desc:

A father hired gamers to kill his son in video games so that his son would get a life.
True
Desc: A man in China was frustrated by his adult son’s incessant gaming habit.

Shouting into a phone helps the other person hear you.
False
Desc: In most cases, it will just rattle your phone’s microphone and distort the sound of your voice.

Some political prisoners in China were forced to play World of Warcraft and other games to gather virtual currency.
True
Desc: There were 300 prisoners forced to play games, who worked 12-hour shifts in the camp and earned around $700 per day.

North Korean "researchers" have concluded that North Korea is the happiest country.
True
Desc: Actually, they have concluded that North Korea is the second happiest country behind China.

MC Hammer chose that name because he used to be a carpenter.
False
Desc: He was nicknamed "Hammer" because he looked like Hank Aaron, whose nickname was "The Hammer".

Our skin is covered with invisible stripes.
True
Desc: The lines were discovered by German dermatologist Alfred Blaschko 75 years ago.

There exists a massive abandoned supercollider in Nevada, US.
False
Desc: But there is actually one in Texas.

Owls cannot move their eyes.
True
Desc: Instead, they have to move their entire head to look around.

Internet Movie Database (IMDb) began as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
True
Desc: Internet Movie Database is older than the first web browsers.

Roasted hedgehog is a traditional ♥♥♥♥♥ dish.
True
Desc: ♥♥♥♥♥ Goulash was featured in one of Guy Ritchie's movies.

Guatemala has more Olympic medalists than it does Nobel Prize winners.
False
Desc:

The discoverer of the neutron was a student of the discoverer of the proton who was the student of the discoverer of the electron.
True
Desc: Chadwick was a student of Rutherford who was the student of Thomson.

The owl's eye color indicate what time of day the owls prefer to be active.
True
Desc: Orange eyes = active at dawn and dusk, dark brown or black eyes = active at night, yellow eyes = active in the day.

A man was so enraged by spam, that he quit his job to study law and now makes a living filing lawsuits against spammers.
True
Desc: Daniel Balsam has been filing lawsuits against spammers since 2002 and has earned over $1 million in court judgments.

Walruses are the only mammals that can sneeze with their eyes open.
False
Desc:

Michael Jackson wanted to build a 50 foot robot of himself to roam the Nevada desert.
True
Desc: An advertisement for a 2005 comeback that never was.

Onion rings has more toxins than snake venom.
False
Desc:

Owls always have symmetrical ears.
False
Desc: The ears of many species of owls are asymmetrical, since this is important for sound localization in the owl.

Russians have a word "Zapoi" to describe several days of continuous drunkeness during which one withdraws from society.
True
Desc:

The oldest computer in use by the Federal government of the United States was correctly predicted by The Simpsons.
True
Desc: It's a 53-year-old machine and surprisingly, *The Simpsons* accurately predicted the winner back in 1998.

An elephant is the only animal that can't jump.
False
Desc: At least sloths and giraffes are also incapable of jumping.

The opposite of deja vu is "jamais vu".
True
Desc: This happens when you experience something you recognise but feel extremely unfamiliar with.

The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed.
True
Desc:

There are at least 25 active serial killers in the United States right now.
True
Desc: This is according to FBI data.

The main theme for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was the first original musical composition from a video game to win a Grammy.
False
Desc: Actually, it was the main menu theme for Civilization IV called "Baba Yetu".

In ancient Egypt, couples were considered married whenever they moved in together.
True
Desc: Wedding ceremonies were reserved for the upper classes.

The phrase 'They shall not pass' came from The Lord of the Rings.
False
Desc: The phrase 'They Shall Not Pass' was originally made famous by a French General, Robert Nivelle, during the Battle of Verdun in the First World War.

A group of owls is called a parliament.
True
Desc: This originates from C.S. Lewis’ description of a meeting of owls in The Chronicles of Narnia.

It snows metal on Venus.
True
Desc: Our neighboring planet Venus is a harsh place to say the least.

A Mexican tribe believes Coca Cola is a healing drug.
True
Desc: Mexican shamans are using Coca-Cola in their religious rituals to heal worshippers.

Albert Einstein smoked cigarette butts picked off from the street.
True
Desc: He was collecting cigarette butts from the streets to circumvent his doctor's effort to stop him from smoking.

Ireland has a registry of approved names that a parent can give their child.
False
Desc: It's Iceland, and all names are regulated by the Icelandic Naming Committee.

The fierce Vikings apparently had a soft spot for little kitties.
True
Desc: One of them was found buried alongside its master in a common grave site that was dated back 1000 years.

Rats are capable of laughing.
True
Desc: When you tickle rats, they apparently make chirping noises at 50kHz, too high for humans to hear.

The term "hipster" is a modern word.
False
Desc: The term hipster is cross-applied from the 1930s Beatniks.

Crocodiles are slow on land.
False
Desc: Crocodiles can run at 15 km/h for a short sprint.

A six year old boy, who claimed he had learned to drive from the Grand Theft Auto video game series, took his family's car on a 10 mile trip, before he crashed.
True
Desc: It was GTA IV.

Those playing video games on a regular basis are more satisfied with their lives and have less emotional issues than those who don't play video games at all.
True
Desc: This is according to a recent study conducted by Oxford University in 2014 surverying 5000 children on video game and social habits.