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• Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
• Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
• 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 Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
• Did you know all the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
• Did you know lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
• Did you know elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period
• 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 an average person will spend 25 years asleep
• Did you know there are 31,557,600 seconds in a year
• Did you know the movie 'Wayne's World' was filmed in two weeks
• Did you know small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds
• Did you know all of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20
• Did you know giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels
• Did you know rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated
• 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 there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year
• 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 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 a giraffe can go longer without water than a camel
• Did you know an iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
• Did you know the average hen lays 228 eggs a year
• Did you know Oak trees don't produce acorns until they are 50 years old
• Did you know hiccups usually lasts for 5 minutes
• Did you know the life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days
• Did you know Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second
• Did you know a humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute)
• Did you know a snail can sleep for 3 years
• Did you know tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food
• Did you know it takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg
• Did you know the moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days
• Did you know dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow
• Did you know 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years
• Did you know blonde beards grow faster than darker beards
• Did you know on average you blink 25,000 a day
• Did you know you shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks
• 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 most birds eat twice their body weight each day
• 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 the average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime
• Did you know 45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day
• Did you know wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
• Did you know American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year
• Did you know the most common time for a wake up call is 7am
• Did you know every year the sun loses 360 million tons
• Did you know the longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years
• Did you know the average bank teller loses $250 every year
• Did you know a rat can tread water for 3 days
• Did you know bottle nosed whales can dive to a depth of 915 metres (3,000feet) in 2 minutes
• Did you know the average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day
• Did you know the average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
• Did you know a platypus can eat its weight in worms every day
• 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 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day
• Did you know the first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days
• Did you know honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten
• 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 trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely)
• Did you know it takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing
• Did you know useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years
• Did you know it takes 1 week to make a jelly bean
• Did you know ferrets sleep between 18 - 20 hours a day
• Did you know the average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
• Did you know recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours
• Did you know a baby fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
• Did you know most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old
• Did you know an ostriches life span is 40-45 years
• Did you know wild cobras can live up to 20 years old
• Did you know the average cow produces 40 glasses of milk a day
• Did you know female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years
• Did you know pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo
• Did you know the spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours
• Did you know camels can drink 94 litres (25 gallons) of water in less than 3 minutes
• Did you know Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year
• Did you know a 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial
• Did you know a nanosecond is one billionth of a second
• Did you know a bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second
• Did you know flies can react to an object it sees and change direction in less than 30 milliseconds
• Did you know a queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day
• Did you know queen termites can live up to 50 years
• Did you know all hurricanes form over the sea and can last up to 10 days
• Did you know 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day
• Did you know sharks have been on Earth for over 400 million years
• Did you know warthogs live for 15 years
• Did you know when baby polar bear cubs are born they cannot see or hear for their first month
• Did you know a woodpecker can peck 20 times a second
• Did you know England's Stonehenge is over 5,000 years old
• Did you know the Eiffel Tower is repainted every 7 years
• Did you know dark roasted coffee beans contain less caffeine than medium roasted ones (the longer a coffee is roasted the more caffeine is burns off)

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