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• Did you know 11% of people are left handed
• Did you know August has the highest percentage of births
• Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
• Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
• 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 the most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
• Did you know the 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English
• Did you know Perth is Australia's windiest city
• Did you know the smallest bones in the human body are found in your 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 money is the number one thing that couples argue about
• Did you know stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
• Did you know honey is the only natural food which never spoils
• Did you know that you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)
• Did you know the only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia
• 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 the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet
• 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 sponges hold more cold water than hot
• Did you know lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
• Did you know fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill
• Did you know cats have over 100 vocal chords
• Did you know it's possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
• Did you know elephants are the only mammal that can't jump
• Did you know a 1/4 of your bones are in your feet
• Did you know your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body
• Did you know on your birthday you share it with 9 million others
• Did you know a 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories
• Did you know you burn more calories sleeping than watching TV
• Did you know hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards
• 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 an average person will spend 25 years asleep
• Did you know hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal
• Did you know the Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world
• Did you know the most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression
• Did you know crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure
• Did you know your skin is the largest organ making up the human body
• Did you know everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world
• 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 in a deck of cards the king of hearts is the only king without a moustache
• Did you know black on yellow are the 2 colors with the strongest impact
• Did you know the safest car color is white
• Did you know the most commonly forgotten item for travelers is their toothbrush
• Did you know apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee
• Did you know room temperature is defined as between 20 to 25C (68 to 77F)
• Did you know the hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other
• 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 the oldest word in the English language is 'town'
• Did you know your most sensitive finger is your index finger (closest to your thumb)
• 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 Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply
• Did you know Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent
• Did you know Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador
• Did you know Hilton was the first international hotel chain
• Did you know Monopoly is the most played board game in the world
• Did you know 96% of candles sold are purchased by women
• Did you know 42% of men and women 25% don`t wash their hands after using a public toilet
• Did you know if you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court
• Did you know Jamaica has 120 rivers
• Did you know small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds
• Did you know China manufacturers 70% of the worlds toys
• Did you know all 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 a hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don`t)
• Did you know there is no butter in buttermilk
• Did you know giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels
• Did you know you're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
• Did you know rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated
• Did you know women blink twice as much as men
• Did you know only female mosquitoes bite
• Did you know Scotland has the most redheads
• Did you know the naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953
• Did you know India has the most post offices than any other country (over 100,000)
• Did you know the Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble
• Did you know Bali has the worlds largest variety of flora
• 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 the word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard
• Did you know an egg contains every vitamin except vitamin C
• Did you know you take over 23,000 breaths everyday
• Did you know gold never erodes
• Did you know when water freezes it expans by 9%
• Did you know your foot and your forearm are the same length
• Did you know diamonds are the hardest natural substance
• 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 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 Peru has more pyramids than Egypt
• Did you know more people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks
• 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 you burn more calories sleeping than watching television
• Did you know the word 'underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'
• Did you know 56% of typing is completed by your left hand
• Did you know there are more chickens than people
• 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 the Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets
• Did you know Americas top selling ice cream flavour is vanilla
• Did you know the oldest known vegetable is the pea
• Did you know the most fatal car accidents occur on Saturdays
• 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 the word 'almost' is the longest word spelt alphabetically
• Did you know human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
• Did you know more people are allergic to cows milk than any other food
• Did you know more people are killed from bees than snakes
• Did you know the average person laughs 10 times a day
• Did you know the Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific
• Did you know your mouth produces 1 litre of saliva a day
• 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 hiccups 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 the smallest dog is the Chihuahua
• Did you know there are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people)
• Did you know the worlds smallest bird is the 'bee hummingbird' found in Cuba
• 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 sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air
• Did you know soccer is the most followed sport
• 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 Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second
• Did you know your most active muscles are in your eye
• Did you know a banana contains 75% water
• Did you know 13 people die every year from vending machines
• Did you know rain contains vitamin B12
• 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 after Hawaii, New York is the state surrounded by the most water
• Did you know ice skating rinks always go counter clock wise (for the majority of people that are right handed needing to hang onto the rail)
• 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 jellyfish is 95% water
• Did you know bats are the only mammals that fly
• 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 there are more insects in the world than all other animals combined
• Did you know bull's can run faster uphill than down
• Did you know a shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel
• Did you know a moth has no stomach
• Did you know there is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined
• Did you know more than 75% of all countries are north of the equator
• Did you know New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline
• Did you know there are no rivers in Saudi Arabia
• Did you know the largest exporter of sugar is Cuba
• Did you know dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow
• Did you know the most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb
• Did you know blonde beards grow faster than darker beards
• Did you know when recognising a persons face you use the right side of your brain
• 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 you have fewer muscles than a caterpillar
• Did you know you shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks
• Did you know that after petrol, coffee is the largest item bought and sold
• 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 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 red light has the highest wavelength
• Did you know oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body
• Did you know a car travelling at 80kph (50mph) uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance
• Did you know most birds eat twice their body weight each day
• Did you know the bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers
• Did you know the cheetah is the only cat that can't retract it's claws
• 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 artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991
• Did you know 70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer
• 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 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 people who work at night tend to weigh more
• Did you know 45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day
• Did you know most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin
• Did you know everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury
• 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 you use 72 different muscles while speaking
• Did you know coconuts kill over 150 people each year (more than sharks)
• Did you know the most common disease is tooth decay
• Did you know avocados have the most calories of any other fruit
• 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 Jack is the most common name in nursery rhyme

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