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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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