Interesting Facts True Or False #1

1. Despite being near the shore of Africa, Madagascar was originally settled by people from the island of Borneo, over 7000 kilometers away.

2. A full-scale nuclear war between the United States and Russia, which together hold more than 85% of the world's nuclear weapons, would kill 120 million people directly and more than 2 billion indirectly by starvation during a 'nuclear winter'.

3. From 300 B.C. to the present, the number of Greek speakers in the world has held steady at around 10 million.

4. About 25.3% of the soldiers who died in the Vietnam War were American.

5. A pterodactyl is not a dinosaur.

6. Muphry's Law states that anytime you criticize someone's spelling or grammar, there will be a spelling or grammar mistake in your criticism.

7. According to the Global Slavery Index, there are 18 million people living in slavery in India. This is four times greater than the number of slaves in the United States at the peak of American slavery.

8. In 2020, due to Covid, there were 13% fewer miles driven in the U.S. than in 2019. Despite this, traffic fatalities increased by 8%.

9. The record for the fastest manned jet aircraft is held by the SR-91 Blackbird, whose record speed of 1,258.4 miles per hour was recorded in 1992.

10. There are over 62 trillion ways to checkmate a player in chess.

11. The largest known star, UY Scuti, is estimated to be about 10 billion times larger than the sun by volume.

12. In 1698, Russia created a beard tax to encourage men to shave their beards and look more like men in other parts of Europe.

13. The village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, in Wales, lengthened its name to Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch for promotional purposes in the 1860s.

14. Every U.S. state has increased in population since 1960 with one exception - New Mexico.

15. The U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an armed atomic bomb over South Carolina in 1958.