Daily True or False
October 4, 2026

She directed the opera 'A Streetcar Named Desire' at the Sydney Opera House in 2013.

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

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.

Many prehistoric reptiles, such as Sarcosuchus and dinosaurs, were far larger. Saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile, but not of all time.

Van Gogh sold 'The Red Vineyard' to Anna Boch in 1890 for 400 francs. This was the only confirmed sale of his work while he was alive.

Fleming returned from vacation in 1928 to find mold (Penicillium notatum) had killed surrounding bacteria—a lucky accident that changed medicine.

The Cuban Missile Crisis is widely referred to as the '13 days.' It began when President Kennedy was informed of Soviet missile sites on October 16 and ended with Khrushchev's withdrawal announcement on October 28, a span of exactly 13 days.

Artists like Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet admired and collected Hiroshige's prints, and his compositional techniques influenced their work.

Tarantulas are terrestrial and cannot breathe underwater. There are aquatic spiders like the diving bell spider, but no tarantula species lives submerged.

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