Statistics for Fact... or Misconception #1

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Tortoises can live longer than humans	Fact	97%
Most people in Mexico speak Spanish as a first language	Fact	95%
China has won more than 50% of all Olympic gold medals in table tennis	Fact	86%
Dijon mustard is named after the city of Dijon, France	Fact	86%
Fortune cookies were invented in China	Misconception	81%
The whale shark is a type of whale	Misconception	81%
Snakes kill thousands of people in Australia each year	Misconception	77%
David Hasselhoff was once a popular singer in Germany	Fact	73%
Identical twins have the same fingerprints	Misconception	71%
Humans evolved from chimpanzees	Misconception	69%
Iceland is colder than most other European countries	Fact	68%
French people drink a lot more wine than people in most other countries	Fact	55%
The Incan Empire lasted for thousands of years before the Spanish conquest	Misconception	54%
Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant in order to discredit A/C power as unsafe	Misconception	51%
There are actual bird nests in traditional Chinese "bird's nest soup"	Fact	32%