The Trans-Siberian Railway crosses 8 different time zones.
True
Olympic gold medals are made of steel.
False. They're made of silver.
Eating cheese before bedtime gives you nightmares.
False
German Chocolate Cake was invented in Pennsylvania.
False. It was invented in Texas!
The first full-length, animated feature film was Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
False. It was El Apostol, made in Argentina.
Japan has square watermelons.
True
Japan has one vending machine for every 40 people.
True.
It takes a drop of water 90 days to travel the entire Mississippi River.
True
Gorillas all have blood type "B."
True
An elephant's trunk has 3 nostrils.
False
Abraham Lincoln had no middle name.
True
The Philippines consists of 2, 621 islands.
False. It consists of 7, 641 islands.
Before becoming queen, Queen Elizabeth was a mechanic.
True
Lemons and limes float in water.
False. Lemons float, but limes do not.
The Scottish have 48 words for snow.
False. They have 421. For example, "flinkdrinken" is a light snow.
John F. Kennedy is on the $2 bill.
False (it's Thomas Jefferson)
There's only one letter that doesn't appear in any US state names.
True.
Only 5% of the earth's water is fresh water.
False. It's 2.5%.
Broccoli was once banned from the White House.
True (in 1990, George H.W. Bush claimed broccoli would no longer be in the White House)
Porcupines can float.
True