Fact+or+Fiction

**Monday (8/29): "It is uncommon for lightning to strike the same place twice." [Fiction.] **  **Tuesday (8/30): "Stress can cause gray hair." [Fiction.] **  **Wednesday (8/31): "We always see the same side of the moon from Earth." [Fact.] **  **Thursday (9/1): "Shooting stars are actually stars at the end of their life cycle." [Fiction.] **  **Friday (9/2): "Adding helium to a balloon makes it weigh more." [Fact.] ** **Tuesday (9/6): "A thin sheet of steel will float in water." [Fiction.] **  **Wednesday (9/7): "Benjamin Franklin invented electricity." [Fiction.] **  **Thursday (9/8): "The ears of a cricket are located on its back." [Fiction.] **  **Friday (9/9): "Sound travels faster in water than in air." [Fact.] ** **Monday (9/12): "Diamonds cannot burn." [Fiction.] **  **Tuesday (9/13): "Minnesota is the northernmost state in the U.S." [Fact.] **  **Wednesday (9/14): "Some of the coldest temperatures on Earth are near the equator." [Fact.] **  **Thursday (9/15): "There is no leap year in the year 2100." [Fact.] **  **Friday (9/16): "If dropped at the same height at the same time a pen and bowling ball would fall at the same speed." [Fact.] ** **Monday (9/19): "It is impossible for pennies to rust." [Fact.] **  **Tuesday (9/20): "Waking up a sleepwalker can cause brain damage." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wednesday (9/21): "A duck's quack does not echo." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Thursday (9/22): "Sugar has no effect on hyperactivity." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Friday (9/23): "Pure water is a poor conductor of electricity." [Fact.] ** **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Monday (9/26): "In Deal or No Deal, you should always switch cases at the end if given the chance." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Tuesday (9/27): "It is impossible to contract lead poisoning from chewing on pencils." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wednesday (9/28): "The brain does not fully develop until the age of 25." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Thursday (9/29): "The largest organ in the body is either the liver or the large intestine." [Fiction.] ** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**Monday (10/3): "Adults can grow new brain cells." [Fact.]** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**Tuesday (10/4): "The metal frame in your car will protect you from getting struck by lightning." [Fact.]** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**Wednesday (10/5): "Your stomach will never digest bubble gum." [Fact.]** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**Thursday (10/6): "Blood is blue inside your body until it reacts with oxygen." [Fiction.]** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**Friday (10/7): "Because bats are blind, they travel via echolocation." [Fiction.]** **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday (10/12): "Two bills of U.S. currency depict portraits of non-presidents." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday (10/13): "Hitting a baseball will travel farther from a pitch than from a tee." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday (10/14): "Bananas are fruits even though they have no seeds." [Fiction.] ** **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday (10/17): "Hair grows back at a normal thickness when shaved." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday (10/18): "Humans only use 10% of their brain at any one time." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday (10/19): "The amount of daylight increases throughout the summer." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday (10/20): "The head loses more heat than the rest of the body." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday (10/21): "Bulls are colorblind." [Fact.] ** **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday (10/24): "Most scorpion stings are not fatal to humans." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (10/25): "Men and women have exactly the same number of ribs." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (10/26): "Cancer is the result of mitosis." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (10/27): "Schizophrenic people are no more violent than the average person." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday (10/28): "Beer/liquor does not freeze." [Fiction.] **

**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday (10/31): "Washing hands with bar soap is more likely to spread germs than liquid soap." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (11/1): "A quick remedy for a jellyfish sting is urinating on the site of contact." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (11/2): "Drinking venom will not kill you." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (11/3): "All flowers reproduce via sexual reproduction." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday (11/4): "Static electricity occurs more in the winter because it is colder." [Fiction.] ** **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (11/9): "Only female mosquitoes bite humans." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (11/10): "Most of the dry mass of a tree comes from air." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday (11/11): "Plants need light, water, and soil to grow." [Fiction.] ** **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (11/15): "The more leaves a plant has, the more water it will lose." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (11/16): "All bacteria are unicellular and prokaryotes." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (11/17): "Coral reefs are in the animal kingdom." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday (11/18): "Giant African snails are illegal in the United States because they are harmful to humans." [Fiction.] ** **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday (11/21): "People in old photographs did not smile because it was too difficult back then." [Fact.] ** **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday (11/28): "More muscles are required to smile than to frown." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (11/29): "A room with 57 random people in it has a 99.9% chance of 2 people sharing a birthday." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (11/30): "People get the flu more often in the winter because they stay indoors more." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (12/1): "You are not likely to get athlete's foot on your hand." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">Friday (12/2): "Ringworm is a bacterial infection." [Fiction.] **

**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday (12/12): "Two brown-eyed parents can have a child with blue eyes." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (12/13): "Parents with dwarfism have a 50% chance of having average-sized children." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (12/14): "Down syndrome is a dominant trait." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (12/15): "The cheetoh is a hybrid cat that is perfectly safe around children." [Fact.] **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday (12/5): "When we eat bread, we eat yeast." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (12/6): "The poisonous Death Cap mushroom tastes good." [Fact.] **   **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (12/7): "Males are responsible for the majority of mutations in humans." [Fact.] **   **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (12/8): "Fraternal twins is caused by a mutation in the fertilized egg." [Fiction.] **   **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday (12/9): "Obesity increases the likelihood of having fraternal twins." [Fact.] **

**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday (1/9): "Different parts of the tongue can detect all types of tastes." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (1/10): "Singing at a high enough pitch can shatter glass." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (1/11): "Mosquito bites are filled with mosquito saliva." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (1/12): "Warts are caused by a fungal infection." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday (1/13): "Eating too many carrots can make your skin turn orange." [Fact.] ** **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (1/17): "Measles is responsible for 1 million deaths a year." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (1/18): "Chocolate aggravates acne." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (1/19): "Cats cannot taste sweetness so they are not likely to die by chocolate." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday (1/20): "Dogs will not hesitate to drink antifreeze because of its sweet taste." [Fact.] ** **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday (1/23): "An unopened can of Diet Coke will float in water." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (1/24): "It's impossible for you to float in a swimming pool of vegetable oil." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (1/25): "The densest body of water in the world is the Red Sea." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (1/26): "Temperature affects the density of a liquid." [Fact.] **  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday (1/27): "Hot objects become more dense and always rise." [Fiction.] ** media type="youtube" key="OEArUTI7Moo" height="507" width="850"
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (1/3): "Fingerprints can be used to determine identical from fraternal twins." [Fact.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (1/4): "Police officers with sleep disorders receive more formal complaints." [Fact.] **   **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (1/5): "Banana trees are not really trees." [Fact.] **   **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday (1/6): "Rocks are poor conductors of heat." [Fact.] **

**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday (1/30): ****<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">"Hours of olympic gymnastics training can stunt your growth." [Fact.] ****<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (1/31): "0.9999. . . < 1" [Fiction.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (2/1): "Poinsettias are highly toxic and can be fatal." [Fiction.] **  **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (2/2): "Candle wax burns to produce carbon dioxide and water." [Fact.] **   **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday (2/3): "Lightning strikes the Empire State Building about 100 times a year." [Fact.] **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday (2/6): "Light travels faster through a solid." [Fiction.] **   **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday (2/7): "If the sun's light were to stop shining, it would take us more than 5 minutes to realize it." [Fact.] **   **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday (2/8): "Light travels faster when the source is moving towards you than when it is stationary." [Fiction.] **   **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday (2/9): "Seasons are caused by the tilt of the earth." [Fact.] **