TRU FALS
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GRAND FINAL
1. The letter 'A' is the most common letter used in the English
language.
The letter “E” is the most
commonly used vowel in the
English language, according
to Oxford. It is likely due to
the fact that it appears in
the word the, the many
False
plurals that end in -es, and
in commonly used pronouns
such as he, she, me, we,
and they.
2. Monaco is the smallest country in the world
Fals
e
Vatican City is, with
only 0.44 sq.km.
3. Melbourne is the capital of Australia.
Fals It is
e Canberra.
4. Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest peak in the world.
False
Mount Everest
is the highest
peak in the
world, not
Mount
5. Coffee is made from
berries
True
When coffee berries turn from
green to bright red in colour,
this indicates ripeness and
they are picked, processed,
and dried, before being
roasted and turned into
The global adult literacy rate is
around
?%
percent
With each generation that
passes, more and more
people are
learning how to read,
according to UNESCO. These
days, around 86 percent of
adults around the world can
enjoy a book on their own.
6. All mammals live on land.
False
Dolphins are
mammals but they
live under the sea.
7. The unicorn is the national animal
of Scotland
The unicorn is first
mentioned in a long
lost book about India
about 400 BC and
eventually is adopted
as Scotland's national
animal in the 15th
century and can now
True be seen everywhere.
8. Thomas Edison discovered gravity
False Isaac Newton discovered
Gravity when he saw a
falling apple while
thinking about the forces
of nature. Thomas Edison
is thought to have
invented the light bulb.
9. Humans lose an average of 75 hairs from their head each
month
False
We can actually lose
up to 75 strands of
hair each DAY!
10. A full round of golf includes 19 holes
It's
18
False
11. The black box in a plane is black.
False
It is actually
orange.
Glaciers and ice sheets hold
about
?%
percent of the world's
freshwater.
Just over68 percent
of the total amount of
the world's water is
held in glaciers,
according to
Water in Crisis: A Guid
e to the World's Fresh
Water Resources
