Daily True or False
September 4, 2026

Hammerhead sharks are strictly marine and cannot tolerate freshwater. Only a few shark species, like the bull shark, can survive in rivers and lakes.

John Singer Sargent was highly prolific. His catalog includes roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, plus drawings and sketches.

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

This is a myth. While piranha may bite, attacks on humans are rare and typically involve only minor nips. They do not devour people quickly.

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.

Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh. He later dropped the 'a' from his surname.

Hiroshige studied under Utagawa Toyohiro, not Hokusai. While both were major ukiyo-e artists, they were contemporaries, with no student-teacher relationship.

John Singer Sargent was a painter, not a writer. The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 was awarded to George Bernard Shaw. Sargent never won any Nobel Prize.

Marina Abramović was born on November 30, 1946, in Belgrade, Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia. This is confirmed in official biographies.

Piranhas produce sounds like barks and croaks by using muscles attached to their swim bladder. These vocalizations are used in aggressive encounters and courtship displays.