True-or-false quiz for adults: a full roundup from common-sense questions to surprising trivia!

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The potted plants in banks are placed to provide a reference for a robber’s height if one comes in. Their height is standardized at around 170 cm. This measure is used because, while people can often describe noticeable features like clothing at a glance, it’s difficult to clearly state a person’s height.

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Proceeding through a red light is permitted during emergency response, but parking violations apply even to patrol cars while they are enforcing the law.

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When scissors are inserted into glass underwater, water molecules composed of hydrogen and oxygen rapidly penetrate the crack and sever the bonds between oxygen and silicon that make up the glass. This phenomenon is called the chemomechanical effect.

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Because the lips have neither sebaceous glands nor sweat glands, they do not sweat. Incidentally, while sweat can accumulate in the navel, the navel itself does not sweat.

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The name “Cinderella” is a nickname; her original name is “Ella.” Because she was made to do ashy, cinder-covered work, her stepmother and stepsisters combined “Cinders,” meaning ashes, with “Ella” and began calling her “Cinderella.”

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"SOS" is actually not an abbreviation of anything and was chosen as a signal without any specific meaning. The reason is that "SOS" is simple and hard to mistake in Morse code. Since each letter uses straightforward signals (three consecutive dots or dashes), it was designed to be reliably transmitted in distress situations.

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Although Tokyo Disney Resort has “Tokyo” in its name, it is actually located in Chiba Prefecture. Similarly, Tokyo German Village and LaLaport TOKYO-BAY also include “Tokyo” in their names but are each in Chiba. Be careful not to mix them up when you go out to have fun.