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1. Octopuses possess three hearts, and kangaroos have three vaginas.
2. Light travels 9 million times faster than rain.
3. The human heart pumps enough blood over a lifetime to fill three supertankers.
2 is false, it is 18 million times faster
1. Kangaroos can’t hop backward due to their anatomy.
2. In 1924, Jack Yeats won Ireland’s first Olympic medal for painting.
3. The average American dog has an ecological footprint equivalent to two Ford F-150s.
3 is false, it is two Toyota Landcruisers
1. Suicide rates among US soldiers in Afghanistan quadrupled in 2012.
2. British cows moo in regional accents.
3. Isaac Newton was the first to document that the human spine is curved.
3 is false, it was actually Leonardo da Vinci.
1. Pregnancy tests once required frog injections.
2. A new owl species is discovered roughly every decade.
3. You can immobilize a hammerhead shark by tickling it.
3 is false, you have to flip it over and tickle it.
1. Sitting Bull was initially named Leaping Fox.
2. Fidel Castro ordered the destruction of Monopoly sets in Cuba.
3. Two French kings died from tennis-related incidents.
1 is false, he was originally named Jumping Badger.
1. A significant 20% of European babies are conceived in IKEA beds.
2. The average person walks the equivalent of thrice around the globe in a lifetime.
3. One-third of Russians incorrectly believe the Sun orbits the Earth.
1 is false, it is only 10%.
1. Wallabies are known for producing cubic faeces.
2. Gerbils can detect adrenaline and are used in airport security.
3. Women buy 80% of retail items, indicating a significant consumer influence.
1 is false, wombats do it instead of wallabys.
1. The common shrew can die from fright.
2. Alexander the Great used saffron to maintain the shine of his hair.
3. Russian distinguishes between light and dark green but has no single word for green.
3 is false, they have no single word for green.
1. Ted Turner owned 50,000 bison.
2. Baby koalas consume their mother's urine for nutritional 'soup.'
3. The world's largest crocodile and the smallest man are from the same Philippine island.
2 if false, they consume their mother's feces.
1. 11 of the 12 people who walked on the Moon were Boy Scouts.
2. The first mobile phones were priced at £1,000 with 30-minute battery life.
3. John Ainsworth Horrocks introduced camels to Australia and died after being accidentally shot by one.
2 is false, they were double the price with only a 20-minute battery life.
1. Leonardo da Vinci never deemed the Mona Lisa finished, having worked on it for 15 years.
2. Statistics reveal that there are more living organisms in a teaspoon of soil than people on Earth.
3. Beyoncé is distantly related to Gustav Holtz.
3 is false, she is related to Gustav Mahler
1. James Garfield could simultaneously write in Greek and Latin.
2. Between 1960 and 1977, the presidential nuclear launch code was simply 11111111.
3. A typical microwave uses more energy on standby than when heating food.
2 is false, it is actually 00000000.
1. More energy flows through a sunflower than through the Sun relative to size.
2. The Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dalí.
3. Over a third of the world's population is bilingual.
3 is false, over half is bilingual.
1. Crocodiles can hold their breath for an hour.
2. Saddam Hussein was born the same day the Titanic sank.
3. Starbucks offers a staggering 87,000 drink combinations.
2 is false, he was born 25 years later.
1. Buzz Aldrin's mother’s maiden name was Moon.
2. Red Bull is banned in several countries, including Yemen and Kuwait.
3. The first commercial chewing gum was launched in 1871 after the inventor failed to create car tires.
2 is false, it is banned in Norway and Denmark.
1. In its first year, Gillette sold only 168 razor blades.
2. The UK retail industry profits £100 million a year from unredeemed gift cards.
3. The ancient Romans taught parrots to say ‘Hail Caesar’ before consuming them.
2 is false, they profit 250 million a year from unredeemed gift cards.
1. The ancient Greek word for ‘idiot’ simply referred to someone not involved in politics.
2. Bobby Leach survived a barrel fall over Niagara Falls but died from slipping on a banana peel.
3. Young Neanderthal girls had larger biceps than adult male humans.
2 is false, he died from slipping on an orange peel.
1. In 1999, over 3,000 people were hospitalized due to laundry basket accidents.
2. More American cats are consumed in Asia than in the US.
3. There is only one known species of vegetarian snake.
3 is false, there are none.
1. In Japan, Tintin is called Tantan.
2. Humans and elephants are the only animals with chins.
3. Every time a woodpecker pecks, its head experiences a force 100 times gravity.
3 is false, it's 1,000 times gravity.
1. Homing pigeons prefer following motorways over their natural navigation.
2. The first silicone breast implant went to a deceased woman named Esmeralda.
3. Brazil nuts are highly radioactive, potentially triggering nuclear alarms.
2 is false, it went to a dog named Esmerelda.
1. Florence Green, the last WWI veteran, passed away in 2012 at age 110.
2. The weight of a blue whale’s mouth is equivalent to its entire body.
3. Rhubarb was illegal in France from 1748 to 1772.
3 is false, it was potatoes that were illegal.
1. Male fruit flies drink more alcohol when rejected by females.
2. Monaco has the world’s highest crime rate per capita despite its small population.
3. The longest hangover recorded lasted four weeks.
2 is false, it is actually Vatican City.
1. The average American absorbs over 50 GB of information a day.
2. Sending a man to the Moon cost approximately the same as tracking down Osama Bin Laden.
3. Chemotherapy is a by-product of mustard gas.
1 is false, it is 34 GB.
1. In ancient Greece, adultery punishment involved garlic and a primitive plunger.
2. 46.4% of Americans pay no income tax.
3. Squirrels remember where they hide up to 10,000 nuts.
1 is false, it involved a radish and a mallet.
1. Cow hooves are used in fire extinguisher foam.
2. A vial at the Henry Ford Museum contains Nikola Tesla’s last breath.
3. The majority of people can remember 90% of their classmates 35 years after leaving school.
2 is false, it was Thomas Edison's last breath.