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No. Lightning often strikes the same place repeatedly, especially tall, pointy, isolated objects, and a single flash can itself hit the same spot several times.
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No. At room temperature glass behaves as a stable solid, and uneven old window panes come from how they were made, not from flow.
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No. The wall is too narrow and too similar in color to its surroundings to be seen by the unaided eye from orbit, and it cannot be seen from the Moon.
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No. Both sides of the Moon get sunlight. The far side is the side we never see from Earth, and it is "dark" only in the sense of being unknown or out of radio contact.
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Not in everyday sinks, tubs or toilets. The Coriolis effect is real, but it is far too weak to set the swirl at that scale. Only carefully controlled experiments show it.
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No. Air resistance caps a falling penny at roughly 25 mph, so it would sting but not kill. The myth ignores drag, which keeps the coin from reaching lethal speed.
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