Do Your Brain A Favor And Learn These Shocking Facts (19 pics)
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- 12 Jun, 2015 |
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These shocking facts will help you up your knowledge game when it comes to fears, forest fires and casinos. Oh my!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia
Most lipstick contains fish scales
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
In Iceland tipping for average service at a restaurant is considered an insult
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
Left-handed people are more than 5 times as likely to die in an accident than are right-handed people
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
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
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders
It takes glass one million years to decompose
Clinophobia is the fear of beds
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
