15 amazing facts that you don't know

1. What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
2. In America, mathematics is known as ‘math’, they say that ‘mathematics’ functions as a singular noun so as per them ‘math’ should be singular too.
3. Do you know a word known as Dyscalculia? Dyscalculia means difficulty in learning arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, and learning maths facts!
4. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
5. Chionophobia is the fear of snow.
6. The YKK on your zipper stands for “Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha.”
7. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
8. Light from distant stars and galaxies takes so long to reach us, that we are actually seeing objects as they appeared hundreds, thousands or even millions of years ago. So, as we look up at the sky, we are really looking back in time !
9. Shooting stars are usually just tiny dust particles falling through our atmosphere. Comets sometimes pass through Earth’s orbit, leaving trails of dust behind. Then as Earth plows through the dust in its path, the particles heat up, creating the streaks in the night sky.
10. The human eye is so sensitive that, if the Earth were flat, you could spot a candle in the dark from 20 miles away !!
11. In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.
12. If all the LEGO bricks ever manufactured were clipped on top of one another, they would make a tower ten times as high as the distance to the Moon.
13. (Source: Urbantimes)
14. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
15. Daniel Radcliffe used a total of 160 pairs of glasses during the filming of all Harry Potter movies.

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