Daily True or False
August 18, 2026

Stick insects can change color slowly over days or weeks due to humidity, temperature, or background, but not instantly. Their camouflage relies on static appearance, not rapid color change.

In his notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci designed a mechanical knight with gears and pulleys that could sit, stand, and move its arms. It is considered an early robot concept.

Magritte worked as a wallpaper designer and advertising poster artist before gaining fame as a surrealist painter.

That famous altered Mona Lisa, titled 'L.H.O.O.Q.', was created by Marcel Duchamp in 1919, not by Man Ray.

The painting was destroyed in the 1945 bombing of Dresden; it never entered the Louvre, and only photographs of it remain.

Hiroshige inherited the position of fire warden from his father and held it for many years before dedicating himself to art. He later passed the role to his son.

Walt Disney was a TV content producer, not an investor in television technology. He partnered with ABC to create shows like 'Disneyland' to fund his theme park, but did not invest in or develop TV hardware or infrastructure.

She used Buddhist prophecies to legitimize her rule and funded many temples, shifting state favor from Confucian scholars.

Musk founded X.com in 1999. In 2000, it merged with Confinity, which had a money-transfer service. The merged entity was later renamed PayPal, and eBay acquired it in 2002.

There is no Nobel Prize for art. Alberto Giacometti received other honors but never a Nobel—his fame rests on his sculptural achievements.