🤔 Curiosities
True or false?
14 curious facts about animals, space and your brain. Some sound wrong but are true – others almost everyone believes, yet they’re myths.
Why do we believe myths?
“We only use 10% of our brain” or “goldfish forget everything after 3 seconds” – we hear these so often that they feel true. Psychologists call this the illusory truth effect: the more often we hear a statement, the more believable it seems, whether or not it’s correct.
The wildest facts from the quiz
- Venus: one day (243 Earth days) lasts longer than one year (225 Earth days).
- Sharks are older than trees – by roughly 60 million years.
- Oxford was already teaching before the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlan.