Interesting information I learnt from taking a quiz...

1. Dubai is home to the tallest man-made structure ever built.
   TRUE (Harder) 
   The 162-floor skyscraper named Burj Khalifa opened in 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
2. 2.Apartheid was the political system dismantled in South Africa at the end of the 20th century.
   TRUE (Easier) 
   Apartheid - the system of legal, racial segregation - governed South Africa from 1948-1994.
3. 3.In her novel The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand promoted the virtues of communal efforts over individualism.
   FALSE (Harder) 
   In her 1943 novel, which reflects Rand's anticommunist philosophy of "objectivism," a genius architect battles conformist mediocrity.
4. 4.Oxygen makes up two-thirds of Earth and also two-thirds of the human body.
   FALSE (Harder) 
   Water is the most common substance at roughly these amounts.
5. 5."E Pluribus Unum," on the seal of the United States, means "one, out of many."
   TRUE (Easier) 
   It's a motto that emphasizes national unity.
6. 6.The sport saved from extinction by President Theodore Roosevelt was football.
   TRUE (Hardest) 
   Until his 1905 call for regulation of the sport, football was dwindling in support due to its violence - 18 football players died that year.
7. 7.The bear has caused more human deaths than any other mammal in history.
   FALSE (Easier) 
   The rat, a frequent carrier of disease, has been the deadliest mammal.
8. from : http://www.merriam-webster.com/true-or-false/index.htm#quiz-top