19 Shocking Facts You Probably Didn't Know

1. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

2. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

3. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

4. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

5. 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.

16. It takes glass one million years to decompose.

17. Clinophobia is the fear of beds.

18. 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.