Daily True or False
August 20, 2026

Hiroshige was born in Edo (now Tokyo), not Kyoto. He spent most of his life there and is strongly associated with the city.

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

John Constable was born on June 11, 1776, in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England, to a wealthy mill-owning family. This is a well-documented biographical fact.

Scorpion's powers came from a scientific procedure involving a scorpion-themed suit and tail, not a bite.

Max Ernst never attended the Bauhaus. He studied philosophy and art history at the University of Bonn and was largely self-taught as an artist.

Paul Cézanne was largely misunderstood and his work was rejected by the public and critics; fame and success came only after his death in 1906.

Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks contain thousands of pages of reverse script, readable in a mirror. He likely used this as a left-handed person to avoid smudging ink or to keep his ideas private.

Orazio Gentileschi was a prominent Baroque painter who trained Artemisia in his workshop and later worked alongside her in London.

Courbet was the leader of the Realist movement, not Impressionism. While he painted outdoors sometimes, his style and philosophy differed sharply from the Impressionists.

Calder earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 before pursuing art.