It's False – Warts and verrucas are caused by the human papilloma virus, which also causes cervical cancer.

It's False – FM stands for ‘frequency modulated’ whilst AM stands for ‘amplitude modulated’.

It's True – in 1997 scientists studying King's Holly (Lomatia tasmanica) a type of shrub from the desert of Tasmania, found it to be over 43,000 years old. This was achieved with the aid of a nearby fossil from the same plant ! [Additional information - The plant is triploid (3x chromosomes) so is sterile. It spreads by root suckering so the same specimen has been growing for all that time].

It's True – In October, 1999 bacteria known as B. permians (bacillus) found in sea salt beneath Carlsbad, New Mexico, were revived after being in suspended animation (encased in a hard-shelled spore) for an estimated 250 million years.

It's True – Men who shave regularly are healthier, and have sex more often than their hairier counterparts, a recent study has shown. Following 2,438 men from South Wales, researchers at the University of Bristol found that men who shave at least once a day are more likely to be married, have better jobs and are less likely to smoke whilst bearded men were also found to have a 70% higher chance of having a stroke.

It's False – it’s a kind of fish !

It's False . In fact all chalk is formed from the bodies of tiny algae called cocolithophores that lived in the sea 70 million years ago in a time called the Cretaceous.

It's False – The sex of a baby is determined by the father who carries an X and a Y chromosome meaning he can make sperm carrying either X or Y chromosomes. If the mothers egg – which only carry X chromosomes – are fertilised by a sperm carrying a Y then you get a boy !

It's False – The farthest the naked eye can see is two point four million light years or 140 million million million miles! This is the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it fairly easily as a dim, large grey "cloud" in a clear night sky.

It's False – They actually account for about 14%, slightly more in men than women.

It's False – the weight of the plane would increase because the force exerted on the floor of the aircraft by the passengers as they jumped would actually increase the weight of the plane momentarily, not decrease it.

It's True – scientists at oxford university have found that mice often leave piles of seeds, twigs or shells to help them find their way home in confusing places like large fields of crops. Leaving visual signals like this is thought to be safer than scent marking which a predator could pick up.