Your Fingernails Don’t Grow After You Die
It may seem like they do because the skin around your fingernails recede as you decompose (sorry) but they’re not growing. Nothing is growing on you after you die!
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Busting Popular Myths That You Probably Thought Were Facts
The More You Know
- A solar powered, self-filling water bottle has been invented for bike riders that condenses atmospheric moisture to automatically fill the bottle.
- When a piece of bread is toasted, it's called the "Maillard reaction."
- Your brain is sometimes more active when you're asleep than when you're awake.
- Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".