Daily True or False
June 27, 2026

Most tarantula venom is mild, comparable to a bee sting, and no species has caused a confirmed human fatality. Exceptions exist but are rare.

John Singer Sargent was born in 1856 in Florence, Italy. His parents were American expatriates, and he spent much of his childhood traveling in Europe.

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

Jordan won his fourth MVP in 1996 at age 33, and his fifth MVP in 1998 at age 35, both well after turning 30.

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

In the late 1630s, Artemisia Gentileschi joined her father in London and worked for King Charles I, painting commissions for the royal court.

Piranha are naturally found in South American river systems, particularly the Amazon, Orinoco, and Paraná basins. They are not native to other continents.

Zero was developed independently in ancient India (by Brahmagupta) and Mesoamerica; Al-Khwarizmi helped popularize the Hindu-Arabic numeral system but didn't invent zero.

Marina Abramović was born in Belgrade, Serbia (then Yugoslavia), not Zagreb, Croatia. This is a common geographical confusion.

Picasso died on April 8, 1973, at age 91. He did not reach 100.