19 Shocking Facts You Probably Didn't Know
Mizuka Ishiwatari
Published
06/08/2015
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A handful of knowledge that will leave you amazed.
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill. -
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open. -
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word. -
4.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. -
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The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia. -
6.
Most lipstick contains fish scales. -
7.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! -
8.
In Iceland tipping for average service at a restaurant is considered an insult. -
9.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. -
10.
Left-handed people are more than 5 times as likely to die in an accident than are right-handed people. -
11.
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution. -
12.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. -
13.
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them. -
14.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. -
15.
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders. -
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It takes glass one million years to decompose. -
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Clinophobia is the fear of beds. -
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. -
19.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
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