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1 - Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
True - Russia 17.1 million km², Pluto 16.7 million km²
2 - Halle Berry was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award.
False - Hattie McDaniel won best supporting actress for gone with the wind in 1939
3 - There are 11 U.S. states that have land farther south than the most northern point of Mexico.
True
4 - Drinking alcohol kills brain cells.
False - Drinking pretty much any non-fatal amount of alcohol won't add enough alcohol to your bloodstream to destroy your neurons.
5 - There are no bridges over the Amazon River.
True - For most of its course, the river flows through tropical rainforest, there are very few roads and cities.
6 - Barry Manilow’s hit, “I Write the Songs”, wasn’t written by him.
True
7 - In Japan they make ornamental triangular watermelons.
False, they can grow square ones though.
8 - The singer ‘Cher’ was born Cherilyn Sarkisian.
True
9 - Your fingernails and hair keep growing after you die.
False - You skin tightens, which can give the appearance of hair and fingernails getting longer after death.
10 - The owner of the company that makes Segways died after accidentally driving his Segway off a cliff.
True - Jimi Heselden died from his accident in 2010.
11 - Napoleon Bonaparte was extremely short.
False - At his autopsy, Napoleon measured 5'2”, but that was in French inches, which were larger than British and American inches. He was actually 5'6” – 5'7” (168-170 cm) tall, which was slightly above average for Frenchmen of his time.
12 - Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’ was originally to be called ‘Halloween Hotel’.
False
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