It's False - Luckily for their blind handlers who rely on their dogs to lead them around, only 13% of dogs are short sighted.

It's True – this produces the irritating whining noise you can hear when you are trying to get to sleep at night and a hungry mosquito has got into your room.

It's False – they are the malleus, incus or stapes (pron. Stay-peas), also known as the hammer, anvil and stirrup.

It's False · New blood cells come from the bone marrow.

It's True - Children have 300 bones, and as they grow some fuse together leaving only 206 in adults.

It's True - There is estimated to be 11,006 different species of ant, and their total weight it roughly equal to the weight of humans on the planet.

It's False · Mathematically it is impossible. Despite its spectacular length, the wall is only about 5 metres wide, meaning that even a person with perfect eyesight would struggle to pick it out from only about as far up in the air as 60,000 feet, or twice the height of mt Everest. Since this is still way below the altitude at which a space craft can orbit, it·s safe to say that it·s a myth that it is visible from space. Perhaps the best evidence is the testimony of Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong who confirmed that the wall is not visible from space.

It's False When the ice melts the level of water will stay the same because the ice is made of water and will therefore displace the same amount of water as it turns into when it melts so the glass will not overflow.

It's False – In fact up to 3 times that amount – between 1200-1500g with men’s brains weighing slightly heavier than women’s (no surprise there).

It's True - At around age 20 the average person has about 10,000 taste buds but this number declines with age so elderly people may have as few as half this number.