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• Did you know 11% of people are left handed
• Did you know a bear has 42 teeth
• Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib
• Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
• Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters
• Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
• Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
• Did you know a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
• Did you know cats spend 66% of their life asleep
• Did you know Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
• Did you know when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)
• Did you know the longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)
• Did you know about 90% of the worlds population kisses
• Did you know toilets use 35% of indoor water use
• Did you know Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
• Did you know all insects have 6 legs
• Did you know African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
• Did you know a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
• Did you know the Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs
• Did you know all the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
• Did you know your foot has 26 bones in it
• Did you know the average human brain contains around 78% water
• Did you know 1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph)
• Did you know if you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050
• Did you know lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
• Did you know cats have over 100 vocal chords
• Did you know elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period
• Did you know a 1/4 of your bones are in your feet
• Did you know on your birthday you share it with 9 million others
• Did you know 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
• Did you know a 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories
• Did you know a hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute
• Did you know dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk
• Did you know in 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names
• Did you know an average person will spend 25 years asleep
• Did you know there are 31,557,600 seconds in a year
• Did you know there are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo
• Did you know room temperature is defined as between 20 to 25C (68 to 77F)
• Did you know the movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor's salaries
• Did you know there are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous)
• Did you know 'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters
• Did you know the average golf ball has 336 dimples
• Did you know the word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel
• Did you know the movie 'Wayne's World' was filmed in two weeks
• Did you know the Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply
• Did you know Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent
• Did you know 96% of candles sold are purchased by women
• Did you know 2% of men and women 25% don`t wash their hands after using a public toilet
• Did you know Jamaica has 120 rivers
• Did you know cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees
• Did you know cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length
• Did you know China manufacturers 70% of the worlds toys
• Did you know The Great Wall of China is approximately 6,430 Km long (3,995 miles)
• Did you know ll of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20
• Did you know the human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold
• Did you know rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population
• Did you know women blink twice as much as men
• Did you know India has the most post offices than any other country (over 100,000)
• Did you know India is home to over 200 million cows
• Did you know Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13
• Did you know every single possible 3 character .com domain has been registered
• Did you know the word 'uncopyrightable' is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter
• Did you know you take over 23,000 breaths everyday
• Did you know when water freezes it expans by 9%
• Did you know 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• Did you know the longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes
• Did you know Halley's comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062)
• Did you know a bowling pin will fall at a tilt of 7.5 degrees
• Did you know there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year
• Did you know a piece of paper cannot be folded more than 7 times
• Did you know the opposite sides of a die always adds up to 7
• Did you know the Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps
• Did you know Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms
• Did you know Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year
• Did you know Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day
• Did you know Einstein slept 10 hours a night
• Did you know Germany borders 9 other countries
• Did you know the Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second
• Did you know over 2,500 left handed people are killed a year from using right handed products
• Did you know gorillas sleep 14 hours a day
• Did you know the lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
• Did you know 56% of typing is completed by your left hand
• Did you know for every human there are 200 million insects
• Did you know the average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites
• Did you know an iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
• Did you know the Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets
• Did you know there are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty's crown
• Did you know the average hen lays 228 eggs a year
• Did you know the Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps
• Did you know Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country
• Did you know Oak trees don't produce acorns until they are 50 years old
• Did you know the average person laughs 10 times a day
• Did you know your mouth produces 1 litre of saliva a day
• Did you know your head contains 22 bones
• Did you know if your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times
• Did you know you begin to feel thirsty when your body losses 1% of water
• Did you know whiccups usually lasts for 5 minutes
• Did you know not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks)
• Did you know the life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days
• Did you know a dolphins top speed is 60kmh (37mph)
• Did you know a sharks top speed is 70kmh (44mph)
• Did you know there are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people)
• Did you know African elephants only have 4 teeth
• Did you know the US flag has 13 stripes (representing the original 13 states)
• Did you know men are stuck by lightning 7 times more than women
• Did you know women make up 49% of the worlds population
• Did you know carrots contain 0% fat
• Did you know 1 billion snails are served in restaurants each year
• Did you know DVDs are physically the same size as a CDs but can store 13 times more data
• Did you know sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air
• Did you know the average soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels and held together by 642 stitches
• Did you know that in developed countries 27% of food is thrown away
• Did you know the odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1
• Did you know the first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmh (5 mph)
• Did you know Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second
• Did you know it takes 1 alligator to make a pair of shoes and 3 for a pair of boots
• Did you know a banana contains 75% water
• Did you know 13 people die every year from vending machines
• Did you know your liver has over 500 functions
• Did you know your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe
• Did you know a flea can jump 350 times its body length
• Did you know cucumbers are 96% water.
• Did you know a full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon
• Did you know a honeybee's top speed is 24kph (15mph)
• Did you know a humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute)
• Did you know horses have 18 more bones than humans
• Did you know a cheetahs top speed is 114kph (70mph)
• Did you know a jellyfish is 95% water
• Did you know every day 7% of the US eats at McDonalds
• Did you know a snail can sleep for 3 years
• Did you know a chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body
• Did you know the average porcupine has 30,000 spikes
• Did you know tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food
• Did you know crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river
• Did you know an elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water
• Did you know it takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg
• Did you know there is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined
• Did you know the moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days
• Did you know more than 75% of all countries are north of the equator
• Did you know 2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover a full stop (.)
• Did you know New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline
• Did you know 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years
• Did you know the Moons diameter is 3,476km
• Did you know the human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels
• Did you know on average you blink 25,000 a day
• Did you know men have 10% more red blood cells than women
• Did you know 1 square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands
• Did you know your normal body temperature is 37C (99F)
• Did you know you shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks
• Did you know minus 40C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40F
• Did you know there is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive the average car 4 times around the world
• Did you know Sir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity
• Did you know the world's knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years time will be discovered in those 50 years
• Did you know according to the old English time system a moment is 1 and a half minutes
• Did you know oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body
• Did you know most birds eat twice their body weight each day
• Did you know dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away
• Did you know each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child
• Did you know The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year
• Did you know americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips
• Did you know 70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer
• Did you know a Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes
• Did you know the average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime
• Did you know a deck of cards should be shuffled at least 7 times before playing
• Did you know 32% of all land in the U.S. is owned by the government
• Did you know the letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1)
• Did you know 1 out of every 8 letters written is an e
• Did you know 45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day
• Did you know Elvis Presley made only 1 television commercial
• Did you know the typical wave height from Pacific tsunami is between 6 - 9 metres
• Did you know wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
• Did you know 55% of all movies are rated R
• Did you know there are 2 chickens for every person
• Did you know 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21
• Did you know half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18
• Did you know there are a million ants for every person on Earth
• Did you know over 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year
• Did you know new born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206)
• Did you know that in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion)
• Did you know you use 72 different muscles while speaking
• Did you know coconuts kill over 150 people each year (more than sharks)
• Did you know it took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa
• Did you know American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year
• Did you know the Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons
• Did you know the average person goes to the toilet 6 times a day
• Did you know 'Babe' was played by over 50 pigs
• Did you know the most common time for a wake up call is 7am
• Did you know India has over 50 million monkeys
• Did you know ostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine
• Did you know the sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth
• Did you know every year the sun loses 360 million tons
• Did you know the shell is 12% of an eggs weight
• Did you know the longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years
• Did you know a squid has 10 tentacles
• Did you know the average American eats 263 eggs a year
• Did you know in 75% of American households women manage the money and pay the bills
• Did you know a third of Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it
• Did you know the odds of being stuck by lighting is 280,000 to 1
• Did you know the average bank teller loses $250 every year
• Did you know the average person has 10,000 taste buds
• Did you know a woodpeckers tongue can wrap around its head twice
• Did you know a rat can tread water for 3 days
• Did you know sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away
• Did you know bottle nosed whales can dive to a depth of 915 metres (3,000feet) in 2 minutes
• Did you know greyhounds can reach speeds of up to 67kph (42mph)
• Did you know you can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth (most males have 40, females 36)
• Did you know when 2 zebras stand side by side they usually face each other in opposite directions to keep an eye out for predators
• Did you know a blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating
• Did you know pelicans consume around a 1/3 of its body weight in a single meal
• Did you know house cats have 18 claws
• Did you know the average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day
• Did you know there are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos
• Did you know the average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
• Did you know fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than a space shuttle
• Did you know only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey
• Did you know all the people on Earth could fit into a 1 km cube
• Did you know there are over 4,300 known species of ladybugs
• Did you know a fly's recation time is 30 milliseconds
• Did you know bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second
• Did you know bees have 4 wings
• Did you know over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii
• Did you know 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day
• Did you know Orange Fanta is the 3rd largest selling soft drink in the world
• Did you know Italy and France produce over 40% of all wine
• Did you know there are over 15,000 different kinds of rice
• Did you know dairy products account for 29% of all food consumed in the U.S.
• Did you know the ideal temperature to fall asleep is between 18-30c (64-86f)
• Did you know 90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the ocean
• Did you know honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten
• Did you know you brain weights 2% of your body weight though uses 20% of all oxygen you breathe and 15% of the bodys blood supply
• Did you know each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die
• Did you know there are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body
• Did you know over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year
• Did you know the Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles)
• Did you know it takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing
• Did you know every year over 98% of atoms in your body are replaced
• Did you know your blood is 6 times thicker than water
• Did you know sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air
• Did you know the average person swallows 295 times during a meal
• Did you know 72% of people eavesdrop

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