Daily True or False
July 22, 2026

No cycling race lasted that long. The longest cycling event in 1896 was the 100 km race, which took about 3.5 hours. The 12-hour myth likely stems from early endurance events.

Hammerhead sharks are viviparous; embryos develop inside the mother and are born live. This is a common reproductive method among many shark species.

Hammerhead sharks are strictly marine and cannot tolerate freshwater. Only a few shark species, like the bull shark, can survive in rivers and lakes.

Max Ernst was born in Brühl, near Cologne, Germany, on April 2, 1891. He spent his childhood in Germany, not Switzerland.

General relativity predicts a singularity at the core where density and gravity become infinite, though quantum effects may alter this.

Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain, to an artist father. He later moved to France.

Soviet remote-controlled robots suffered electronics failures from radiation, so thousands of human 'liquidators' cleaned the reactor roof and other areas in short, intense shifts.

Traditional sushi rolls (maki) with nori on the outside originated in Japan centuries ago. The inside-out roll (uramaki), such as the California roll, was invented in Los Angeles in the 1970s.

Only New World tarantulas possess urticating hairs; Old World species lack them, relying on other defenses. Therefore, the blanket statement that all tarantulas have these hairs is incorrect.

Hammerhead sharks possess ampullae of Lorenzini, electroreceptors that sense electric fields—including the faint heartbeat of hidden prey like stingrays.