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True or False? John Banner (1910-1973) who played Sgt. Schultz in TVs “Hogan’s Heroes”, Peggy Parish (1927-1988) author of the “Amelia Bedelia” books, and Conway Twitty (1933-1993) country music singer and actor all died from an abdominal aneurysm. |
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True or False? 600 to 700 separate species of bacteria exist in your mouth. |
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True or False? Academy Award winning actor Robert Donat (1905-1958), actor Neil Hamilton (1899-1984) who played Commissioner Gordon in TVs “Batman”, Dr. Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001) who performed the first successful human heart transplant in 1967, and actress Charlotte Coleman (1968-2001) best-known for playing “Scarlett” in the film “Four Weddings and a Funeral” all died from an asthma attack. |
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True or False? According to Save the Children, although the number of children of primary school age who are not attending primary school has dramatically fallen from 100 million to 77 million world-wide, there has been little improvement in nations involved in armed conflict. 39 million school-aged children in these countries do not attend school. |
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True or False? According to a study of 350 men and women published in the JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, males average a 4 per cent increase in math test scores if they take the test while dressed in a swimming suit. Females average a 6 per cent decrease in math test scores if they take the test while dressed in a swimming suit. |
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True or False? There is a 50 per cent chance that a U.S. citizen of Arab ancestry is a Christian.
Big smiles and sustained eye contact are contagious. People who watch leaders express charismatic behaviour also become outgoing. |
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True or False? Compared to men, women use more of their brains when they think. |
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True or False? Bananas are not fattening. They are actually low in fat. There is only half a gram of fat and 398 kilojoules (95 calories) in a banana. |
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True or False? Papyrophobia is the morbid fear of paper. |
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True or False? A person in the U.S. has a 1 in 6,498 chance of being killed in a motor vehicle accident during the next year. |