New York City has enough restaurants for one person to eat at a new spot everynight for 22.7 years without repeating a visit.

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There exist contact lenses that are worn overnight to reshape the cornea, providing clear vision during the day without the need for glasses or contacts.

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Fast food bread contains a chemical substance called azocarbondiamide. It makes the mixture more elastic.

It's funny, but the same substance is used in the production of yoga mats.

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If you see two suns in the sky at once on opposite sides of the horizon, this is the rare phenomenon of antihelium.

It is caused by the same refraction of light in the ice particles contained in the clouds.

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The Fear of eating with other people or in public is known as “Deipnophobia”.

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We would like to wish a Merry Christmas to all of our Shocking Facts Fam that celebrate today!

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In the early 1900s, "Sober Sue" drew audiences for never smiling, with a theater offering $1000 to anyone who could make her laugh.

Famous comedians tried and failed, delighting the crowd with free shows. It was later discovered that Sue had facial paralysis.

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Public toilets in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Would you use?

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Last year a laboratory in Tokyo, developed a pair of chopsticks that makes your food taste saltier, by giving you mild electric shocks.

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A pregnant guinea pig may change her mind about becoming a mother, then the cubs are absorbed inside or preserved for several years.

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Excessive love for cats can cause mental illness leading to suicide.

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Keeping your cell phone in your front pants pocket meaningfully reduces your testosterone and your sperm quality.

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Being a bad driver is partially a genetic trait.

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In the US, a 10 year old can get legally married, and between 2000 and 2018 almost 300,000 minors were legally married.

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Only two animals can see behind them without turning their heads. 

This is a parrot and a rabbit.

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Non-alcoholic beer is a natural isotonic, quickly saturates the body with liquid and replenishes the reserves of microelements. 

Many professional athletes use it during competitions and training.

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In public toilets of Japan, you can turn on music, so that you are not embarrassed by derivative sounds.

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The split personality of a person can have not only a different character, but also different mental and physical abilities, be of a different age, have different health.

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It is such a stigma to adopt children in South Korea that women are recommended to wear a maternity pillow to appear pregnant until the adoption is finalized.

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We care more about a single person than about massive tragedies. It's called psychic numbing.

A psychologist explains the limits of human compassion at a University of Pennsylvania study. One group learned about a little girl who was starving to death, another learned about millions dying of hunger, and a third learned about both situations.

People donated more than twice as much money when hearing about the little girl than when hearing the statistics, and even the group who had heard her story in the context of the bigger tragedy donated less. Psychologists think that we're wired to help the person in front of us, but when the problem feels too big, we figure our little part isn't doing much.

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