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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: unless food is mixed with saliva you can’t taste it

• Did You Know: the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes

• Did You Know: a bear has 42 teeth

• Did You Know: an ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain

• 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: Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lifshitz

• Did You Know: rabbits like licorice

• Did You Know: the Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters

• Did You Know: ‘Topolino’ is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy

• Did You Know: a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue

• Did You Know: armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex

• Did You Know: reindeer like bananas

• Did You Know: the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds

• Did You Know: birds need gravity to swallow

• 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: dreamt is the only word that ends in mt

• Did You Know: the first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON

• Did You Know: a cat has 32 muscles in each ear

• Did You Know: Perth is Australia’s windiest city

• Did You Know: Elvis’s middle name was Aron

• Did You Know: goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light

• 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: macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs

• Did You Know: when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)

• Did You Know: spiders are arachnids and not insects

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• Did You Know: each time you see a full moon you always see the same side

• 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: M&M’s chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie

• 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: 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: Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine

• Did You Know: the Internet was originally called arpanet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense

• Did You Know: toilets use 35% of indoor water use

• Did You Know: the fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco

• Did You Know: Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day

• Did You Know: the first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954

• Did You Know: all insects have 6 legs

• Did You Know: the croissant was invented in Austria

• Did You Know: In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas

• 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: Australia was originally called New Holland

• Did You Know: ‘Lonely Planet’ for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia

• 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: 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: 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: camel’s milk doesn’t curdle

• Did You Know: elephants sleep between 4 – 5 hours in 24 period

• Did You Know: it’s possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down

• Did You Know: frogs can’t swallow with their eyes open

• 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: 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros

• Did You Know: a 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories

• Did You Know: you burn more calories sleeping than watching TV

• Did You Know: frogs don’t usually swallow water (they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin)

• Did You Know: at birth dalmations are always white

• Did You Know: hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards

• Did You Know: a duck can’t walk without bobbing its head

• 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: a crocodile can’t move its tongue

• Did You Know: that the first MTV video played was ‘Video killed the radio star’ by the Buggles

• Did You Know: in 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names

• Did You Know: pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians

• 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: an elephant’s ears are used to regulate body temperature

• 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: the word laser stands for ‘Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation’

• Did You Know: crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure

• Did You Know: reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube

• Did You Know: your skin is the largest organ making up the human body

• Did You Know: cows don’t have upper front teeth

• Did You Know: every day is a holiday somewhere in the world

• Did You Know: the coins thrown into the Trevin fountain in Italy are collected for charity

• Did You Know: French fries are originally from Belgium

• 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: Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961

• 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: an octopus’s pupil is rectangular

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• 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 Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service

• 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: cats can’t move their jaw sideways

• Did You Know: grapes explode when you put them in the microwave

• Did You Know: its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky

• 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: Venetian blinds were invented in Japan

• 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: a group of frogs is called an army

• Did You Know: a group of rhinos is called a crash

• Did You Know: a group of kangaroos is called a mob

• Did You Know: a group of whales is called a pod

• Did You Know: a group of geese is called a gaggle

• Did You Know: a group of owls is called a parliament

• Did You Know: the first sailing boats were built in Egypt

• Did You Know: Brazil is named after a tree

• 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: the brand Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland

• 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: a cat’s urine glows under a black light

• Did You Know: white cats with blue eyes are usually deaf

• Did You Know: cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees

• Did You Know: small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds

• Did You Know: domestic cats dislike citrus scents

• 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: paper originated from China

• Did You Know: the wheelbarrow is invented in China

• Did You Know: tree hugging is forbidden in china

• Did You Know: the film ‘Mary Poppins’ was filmed entirely indoors

• Did You Know: all of the clocks in the movie ‘Pulp Fiction’ are fixed to 4:20

• Did You Know: instant coffee was invented in 1901

• 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 world’s population

• Did You Know: Pearls melt in vinegar

• Did You Know: a hardboiled 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: the dot on top of the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle

• Did You Know: the electric chair was invented by a dentist

• Did You Know: you’re more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider

• Did You Know: a crocodile can’t stick out its tongue

• Did You Know: rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated

• Did You Know: women blink twice as much as men

• Did You Know: ostriches don’t bury their heads in sand

• Did You Know: only female mosquitoes bite

• Did You Know: Scotland has the most redheads

• Did You Know: household dust is made of dead skin cells

• Did You Know: the past tense for the English word ‘dare’ is ‘durst’

• Did You Know: hummingbirds can’t walk

• Did You Know: wind doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object

• 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: India is home to over 200 million cows

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• Did You Know: the Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble

• Did You Know: Bali has the world’s largest variety of flora

• 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: the word ‘testify’ derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles

• 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: that you can spell the word ‘level’ the same backwards

• Did You Know: Madonna and Michael Jackson were both born in 1958

• Did You Know: almonds are members of the peach family

• Did You Know: an egg contains every vitamin except vitamin C

• Did You Know: owls can’t move their eyes from side to side

• Did You Know: you take over 23,000 breaths everyday

• Did You Know: gold never erodes

• Did You Know: scorpions glow under ultra violet light

• Did You Know: when water freezes it expands by 9%

• Did You Know: ants stretch when they wake up in the morning

• Did You Know: your foot and your forearm are the same length

• Did You Know: diamonds are the hardest natural substance

• 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: there is no sound in space

• Did You Know: tennis was originally played with bare hands

• Did You Know: the Olympic flag was designed in 1913

• 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 add up to 7

• Did You Know: VHS stands for Video Home System

• Did You Know: the WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer

• Did You Know: the electric toothbrush was invented in 1939

• Did You Know: Porsche also builds tractors

• Did You Know: the Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps

• Did You Know: Isaac Newton invented the cat door

• Did You Know: the Titanic was built in Belfast

• Did You Know: Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms

• Did You Know: Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands

• Did You Know: Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year

• Did You Know: Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee

• 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: Peru has more pyramids than Egypt

• Did You Know: Christmas trees originated from Germany

• Did You Know: more people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks

• Did You Know: the original design of Monopoly was circular

• 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: the stomach acids found in a snake’s stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair

• Did You Know: the word race car can be spelled the same way backwards

• Did You Know: a giraffe can go longer without water than a camel

• Did You Know: you burn more calories sleeping than watching television

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• 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: an iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes

• Did You Know: emus can’t walk backwards

• 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 doorbell was invented in 1831

• Did You Know: there are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty’s crown

• 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: Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years’ old

• 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: Earth is the only planet not named after a god

• Did You Know: months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th

• Did You Know: more people are allergic to cow’s 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: your head contains 22 bones

• Did You Know: the coloured part of your eye is called the iris

• Did You Know: if your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times

• Did You Know: everyone has a unique tongue print

• 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 your cheeks)

• Did You Know: the life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days

• Did You Know: a dolphin’s top speed is 60 kmh (37 mph)

• Did You Know: the smallest dog is the Chihuahua

• Did You Know: a shark’s top speed is 70 kmh (44 mph)

• Did You Know: there are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people)

• Did You Know: the world’s smallest bird is the ‘bee hummingbird’ found in Cuba

• Did You Know: African elephants only have 4 teeth

• Did You Know: The first English dictionary was written in 1755

• Did You Know: the rarest type of diamond is green

• Did You Know: MasterCard was originally called master charge

• 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: Tokyo was once known as Edo

• Did You Know: women make up 49% of the world’s population

• Did You Know: wine is sold in tinted bottles because it spoils when exposed to light

• Did You Know: the tea bag was invented in 1908

• Did You Know: carrots contain 0% fat

• Did You Know: 1 billion snails are served in restaurants each year

• Did You Know: plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970

• Did You Know: the $ sign was introduced in 1788

• Did You Know: the meaning of ‘Blue Chip’ comes from blue casino chips which have a high value

• Did You Know: dvds are physically the same size as a cds but can store 13 times more data

• Did You Know: the term ‘disc jockey’ was first used in 1937

• 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: soccer is the most followed sport

• Did You Know: volleyball was invented in 1895

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• 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: 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 you are 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 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: flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway

• Did You Know: horses have 18 more bones than humans

• Did You Know: a cheetah’s top speed is 114kph (70mph)

• Did You Know: horses sleep standing up

• Did You Know: a jellyfish is 95% water

• Did You Know: bats are the only mammals that fly

• Did You Know: a cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through

• 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: tigers have striped skin as well as fur

• Did You Know: crocodiles are colour blind

• Did You Know: a chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body

• Did You Know: dogs sweat through the pads on their feet

• Did You Know: hippopotamuses are born under water

• Did You Know: bananas grow pointing upwards.

• Did You Know: whales can’t swim backwards

• Did You Know: camels are born without humps

• Did You Know: only female mosquitoes bite

• 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: giraffes can’t swim

• Did You Know: crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper

• Did You Know: an elephant’s trunk can hold over 5 litres of water

• Did You Know: bulls 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: grasshoppers have white blood

• Did You Know: it takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg

• Did You Know: New York was once called New Amsterdam

• Did You Know: there is 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans than has been mined

• Did You Know: Brazil got its name from the Brazilian nut (not the other way around)

• 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: Hawaii officially became a part of the US in 1900

• Did You Know: the D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Columbia

• Did You Know: New York contains 920 km (571 miles) of shoreline

• Did You Know: The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake

• 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: Icelandic phone books are listed by first names (not surnames)

• Did You Know: 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years

• Did You Know: the water in the Dead Sea is so salty that it’s easier to float than sink

• Did You Know: Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January

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• Did You Know: the Moons diameter is 3,476 km

• Did You Know: New York’s Central Park was opened in 1876

• Did You Know: the subject of the first printed book in England was about chess

• Did You Know: the word old English word ‘juke’ meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box

• Did You Know: EMI awards stands for ‘Electrical and Musical Instruments’

• Did You Know: the most sung song is happy birthday

• Did You Know: the first rugby club was formed in 1843

• Did You Know: the most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb

• Did You Know: the yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines

• Did You Know: draughts (checkers) is older than chess

• Did You Know: orienteering originated from Sweden

• Did You Know: blonde beards grow faster than darker beards

• Did You Know: when recognizing a person’s face you use the right side of your brain

• Did You Know: the human body contains 96,000 km (59,650 miles) of blood vessels

• Did You Know: the hydrochloric acid found in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail

• 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: New Zealand’s first hospital was opened in 1843

• Did You Know: when your face blushes so do your stomach lining

• 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: red blood cells are produced in bone marrow

• 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: the first metered taxi was introduced in 1907

• Did You Know: the Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700

• Did You Know: a Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure

• Did You Know: the revolving door was invented in 1888

• Did You Know: minus 40C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40F

• Did You Know: cars were first started with ignition keys in 1949

• Did You Know: to crack a whip the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound

• 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 lie detector was invented in 1921

• 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: the drinking straw was invented in 1886

• Did You Know: red light has the highest wavelength

• Did You Know: paper money was first used in China

• 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: light is electromagnetic radiation

• Did You Know: a car travelling at 80 kph (50 mph) uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance

• Did You Know: gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur

• Did You Know: giraffes have no vocal cords

• Did You Know: most birds eat twice their body weight each day

• Did You Know: a group of whales is called a pod

• Did You Know: armadillos can walk underwater

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• 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: roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks

• Did You Know: dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24 km (15 miles) away

• Did You Know: flamingos can only eat when their head are upside down

• Did You Know: the fingerprints of koala bear are indistinguishable to that of a human

• Did You Know: a female ferret is called a jill

• Did You Know: porcupines float in water

• Did You Know: the last Play Boy centrefold to have staples was published in 1985

• Did You Know: Scissors were most likely invented ancient Egypt

• Did You Know: each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child

• Did You Know: turnips turn green when sunburnt

• Did You Know: The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year

• Did You Know: moisture (not air) causes super glue to dry

• 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: all of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast

• Did You Know: a Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes

• Did You Know: Britain was the first country to use postage stamps

• Did You Know: the average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 litters (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: the side of a hammer is called a cheek

• Did You Know: 32% of all land in the U.S. is owned by the government

• Did You Know: Pinocchio is Italian for ‘pine head’

• Did You Know: the letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1)

• Did You Know: the longest word that can be typed using only our right hand is ‘lollipop’

• 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: you can only see a rainbow if you have your back to the sun

• Did You Know: the oldest exposed surface on Earth is New Zealand’s South Island

• 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: Elvis Presley made only 1 television commercial

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• Did You Know: you can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets)

• Did You Know: the typical wave height from Pacific tsunami is between 6 – 9 metres

• Did You Know: Diet Coke was introduced in 1982

• Did You Know: the word ‘lethologica’ describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want

• 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: half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18

• Did You Know: Shakespeare invented the words ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’

• 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: there is no proof as to who built the Taj Mahal

• Did You Know: The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick’ is said to be the toughest tongue twister

• 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: Tiger Woods’ real first name is Eldrick

• 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: 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: emus can’t walk backwards

• Did You Know: half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18

• 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 rhymes

• Did You Know: there are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty’s crown

• Did You Know: ‘Babe’ was played by over 50 pigs

• Did You Know: the most common time for a wakeup call is 7 am

• Did You Know: giraffes have the highest blood pressure of any animal

• Did You Know: India has over 50 million monkeys

• Did You Know: Iceland was the first country to legalise abortion in 1935

• Did You Know: blue and white are the most common school colours

• Did You Know: ostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine

• Did You Know: your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects

• Did You Know: Japan is the largest exporter of frog legs

• Did You Know: the sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth

• Did You Know: every year the sun loses 360 million tons

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• 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: the first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum

• Did You Know: the first Lifesaver flavour was peppermint

• Did You Know: the longest one syllable word in the English language is ‘screeched’

• 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 household’s women manage the money and pay the bills

• Did You Know: hypnotism is banned in public schools in San Diego (U.S.)

• Did You Know: a third of Americans flush the toilet while they’re still sitting on it

• Did You Know: you’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than any other

• Did You Know: your right lung takes in more air than your left

• Did You Know: women’s hearts beat faster than men’s

• Did You Know: the atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric)

• 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: more people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined

• Did You Know: the average person has 10,000 taste buds

• Did You Know: Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country

• Did You Know: ‘underground’ is the only word that begins and ends with the letters ‘und’

• Did You Know: a woodpecker’s tongue can wrap around its head twice

• Did You Know: snakes can’t blink

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• Did You Know: ants don’t like baby powder (talcum powder)

• Did You Know: employees are more likely to book holidays off work on a Monday that any other week day

• Did You Know: the ball on top of a flag pole is called the truck

• Did You Know: a rat can tread water for 3 days

• Did You Know: bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all all invented by women

• Did You Know: there is no rice in rice paper

• Did You Know: dolphins can kill sharks by ramming them with their snout

• Did You Know: sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4 km (2.5 miles) away

• Did You Know: bottle nosed whales can dive to a depth of 915 metres (3,000 feet) in 2 minutes

• Did You Know: the only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica

• Did You Know: Australia has the largest sheep population

• Did You Know: greyhounds can reach speeds of up to 67 kph (42 mph)

• Did You Know: you can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth (most males have 40, females 36)

• Did You Know: sharks never stop moving even when they sleep or rest

• Did You Know: greyhounds can see better than any other dog breed

• 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: most cows produce more milk when they listen to music

• Did You Know: elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear

• Did You Know: giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal

• Did You Know: snakes can’t bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise)

• 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: gorillas can’t swim

• Did You Know: house cats have 18 claws

• Did You Know: giraffes can’t cough

• Did You Know: the Giant Pacific Octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak

• Did You Know: deer don’t like hay

• Did You Know: shrimps are all born male but slowly grow into females

• Did You Know: the average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dung 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: a platypus can eat its weight in worms every day

• Did You Know: fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than a space shuttle

• Did You Know: spiders have transparent blood

• Did You Know: mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes

• Did You Know: only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey

• Did You Know: March 14 is ‘save a spider day’

• 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 reaction time is 30 milliseconds

• Did You Know: butterflies taste with their back feet

• Did You Know: moths have no stomach

• Did You Know: bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second

• Did You Know: bees have 4 wings

• Did You Know: the most eaten fruit in America is the banana

• Did You Know: the ancient Greeks first grew carrots as a form of medicine and not a food

• Did You Know: originally in 1886 Coca Cola was introduced as an ‘intellectual beverage’ to boost brain power

• Did You Know: over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii

• Did You Know: the frozen foods were first introduced in the 1920.

• Did You Know: the color of a chili pepper is no indication of its heat (usually the smaller the hotter)

• Did You Know: John Kellogg invented corn flakes

• 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: Canada has more lakes than any other country

• Did You Know: the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea is Sicily

• Did You Know: 90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the ocean

• Did You Know: the Nile river flows North

• Did You Know: Spain’s largest source of income is from tourism

• Did You Know: Coca Cola was founded by Joseph A Biedenharn

• Did You Know: the first place in the world to allow women to vote New Zealand

• Did You Know: the first parachute jump from plane was in 1918 over France

• Did You Know: the dollar values on the board game Monopoly have been the same since 1935

• Did You Know: the first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days

• Did You Know: the first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935

• Did You Know: before 1863 the postal service in the US was free

• Did You Know: the first taxi service began in New York in 1907

• Did You Know: Pez was invented in 1927

• Did You Know: the elevator was invented in 1850

• Did You Know: the first toothbrush was invented in 1498

• 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 body’s 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: the hardest substance in the human body is enamel

• Did You Know: there are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body

• Did You Know: the number 1 cause of blindness in the US is diabetes

• Did You Know: trees do not have life expectancies (most can grow indefinitely)

• Did You Know: rain contains vitamin B12

• Did You Know: over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year

• Did You Know: clouds fly higher during the day than the night

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• Did You Know: the Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176 km (864,000 miles)

• 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: clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odour)

• Did You Know: Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature

• Did You Know: the opposite of a ‘vacuum’ is a ‘plenum’

• Did You Know: sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air

• Did You Know: before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers

• Did You Know: the most common Spanish surname is Garcia

• Did You Know: 22% of people skip lunch daily

• Did You Know: the average person swallows 295 times during a meal

• Did You Know: 72% of people eavesdrop

• Did You Know: the most popular snack food is potato chips

• Did You Know: 45% of people use mouthwash daily

• Did You Know: on average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips

• Did You Know: the most popular toothbrush colour is blue

• Did You Know: the US produces 19% of the world’s trash

• Did You Know: 59% of people say that their average looking

• Did You Know: 53% of women don’t leave home without makeup on

• Did You Know: 44% of people have broken a bone

• Did You Know: 9% of people skip breakfast daily

• Did You Know: chocolate manufacturers use 40% of the world’s almonds

• Did You Know: 90% people depend on alarm clocks to wake up

• Did You Know: 21% of people don’t make their bed in the morning

• Did You Know: 85% of women wear the wrong bra size

• Did You Know: the number 1 reason why people purchase a mobile phone is for safety

• Did You Know: per person France consumes the most cheese

• Did You Know: the Earth experiences over 50,000 earthquakes a year

• Did You Know: 75% of people wouldn’t give up their spouse for a night for a $1,000,000

• Did You Know: M*A*S*H stood for ‘Mobile Army Surgical Hospital’

• Did You Know: The TV sitcom Seinfeld was originally called ‘The Seinfeld Chronicles’

• Did You Know: the first James Bond movie was called ‘Dr. No’

• Did You Know: ‘fan’ is short for ‘fanatic’

• Did You Know: clinophobia is the fear of going to bed

• Did You Know: a standard 747 jumbo jet has 420 seats

• Did You Know: police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian)

• Did You Know: the makers of the board game Monopoly print over 50 billion dollars’ worth of Monopoly money every year

• Did You Know: the ‘black box’ that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash

• Did You Know: the average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons

• Did You Know: the blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper

• Did You Know: the Colgate toothpaste company started out making starch, soap, and candles

• Did You Know: the first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913

• Did You Know: the human eye can detect more shades of green that any other colour

• Did You Know: the number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it

• Did You Know: the statue of Liberty’s mouth is 3 feet wide

• Did You Know: the surface area of a brick is 79 cm squared

• Did You Know: 3 teaspoons make up 1 tablespoon

• Did You Know: useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years

• Did You Know: jellyfish don’t have a brain

• Did You Know: 45% of Americans don’t know that the sun is a star

• Did You Know: the Greek national anthem has 158 verses

• Did You Know: it takes 1 week to make a jelly bean

• Did You Know: you can’t tickle yourself

• Did You Know: you can’t trademark surnames

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• Did You Know: ferrets sleep between 18 – 20 hours a day

• Did You Know: the ‘you are here’ arrow on maps is called an ideo locator

• Did You Know: A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel

• Did You Know: a violin contains over 70 separate pieces of wood

• Did You Know: there are over 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building

• 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 foetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks

• Did You Know: a group of foxes is called a skulk

• Did You Know: a hippopotamus can run faster than a man

• Did You Know: a King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 4 metres (13 feet) long

• Did You Know: lions in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year

• Did You Know: a male baboon can kill a leopard

• Did You Know: rhinoceros have 3 toes on each foot

• Did You Know: a shrimp has 5 pairs of legs

• Did You Know: elephants can run up to 40k mh (25 mph)

• Did You Know: baby rattlesnakes are born in August and September

• Did You Know: most snakes have 1 lung

• Did You Know: camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand Did You Know:  the night vision of tigers is 6 times better than humans

• Did You Know: flamingos can live up to 80 years’ old

• Did You Know: in Africa more people are killed by crocodiles than lions

• Did You Know: most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years’ old

• Did You Know: out of the 250+ known species of shark only 18 are known to be dangerous to man

• Did You Know: an ostrich can outrun a horse

• Did You Know: an ostrich’s life span is 40-45 years

• Did You Know: squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground

• 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: a blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses

• Did You Know: the greyhound is the fastest dog and can reach speeds of up to 72 kph (45 mph)

• Did You Know: the fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108 kph (68 mph, 59 knots)

• Did You Know: female condors lay a single egg once every 2 years

• Did You Know: hippopotamuses have skin 3.8cm (1.5in) thick

• Did You Know: an arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2,200 people

• Did You Know: whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals

• Did You Know: penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere primarily in Antarctica (excluding zoos above the equator)

• Did You Know: toads only eat moving prey

• Did You Know: when born a baby giraffe is 1.8m (6ft) tall

• Did You Know: a bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight

• Did You Know: pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo

• Did You Know: crocodiles continually grow new sets of teeth to replace old ones

• Did You Know: the skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight

• Did You Know: there are over 1,600 known species of starfishes

• Did You Know: there are over 320 species of parrots

• Did You Know: there are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant’s trunk

• Did You Know: there are over 690 known species of bats

• Did You Know: there are over 130 species of owl

• Did You Know: a garfish has green bones

• Did You Know: a camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sandstorm

• Did You Know: a cat can keep purring while inhaling and exhaling

• Did You Know: the spikes of a new-born 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: you can smell a skunk 1.6 km (1 mile) away

• Did You Know: there are over 2,500 different types of mushrooms

• Did You Know: there are over 7,000 different types of apples

• Did You Know: thin skinned lemons are the juiciest

• Did You Know: on the average there are 8 peas in a pod

• Did You Know: you have to eat 5kg (11lb) of potatoes to put on .5kg (1lb) of weight (a potato has no more calories than an apple)

• Did You Know: a connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers

• Did You Know: the ice cream cone was introduced in 1904

• Did You Know: 93% of households in Denmark consume wine (the highest % in the world with France second with 85% of households)

• Did You Know: chocolate is the number 1 food craved by women

• Did You Know: Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year

• Did You Know: chicken drumsticks contain the least amount of meat on a chicken

• Did You Know: cooking or freezing does not reduce the heat (spiciness) of a chili pepper

• Did You Know: arachibutyrophobia is fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

• Did You Know: dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter ones

• Did You Know: the average person consumes over a ton of food and drink each year

• Did You Know: cabbage is 91% water

• Did You Know: the most valuable nutrients of a potato are its skin

• Did You Know: fresh apples float because they contain 25% air

• Did You Know: green tea has 50% more vitamin C than black tea

• Did You Know: lettuce is the world’s most popular green vegetable

• Did You Know: there are over 100 different viruses that cause the common cold

• Did You Know: Antarctica is 98% ice and 2% barren rock

• Did You Know: Finland has the largest number of islands in the world (over 179,550)

• Did You Know: the average Americans diet consists of 55% junk food

• Did You Know: Canada has more doughnut shops per capita than any other country

• Did You Know: 80% of all people hit by lightning are men

• Did You Know: before beginning his movie career Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto Canada

• Did You Know: Chevy Chase’s real first name is Cornelius

• Did You Know: the only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat

• Did You Know: a 15th anniversary is called a quindecinnial

• Did You Know: a nanosecond is one billionth of a second

• Did You Know: a whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound

• Did You Know: men change their minds 2 to 3 times more than women (women tend to take longer to make a decision but once they do they are more likely to stick to it)

• Did You Know: all pilots on international flights identify themselves in English regardless of their country of origin

• Did You Know: brontology is the study of thunder

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• Did You Know: diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa

• Did You Know: dry ice transforms directly from being a solid to a gas

• Did You Know: employees of the Vatican pay no income tax

• Did You Know: the first city to mint its own gold coins was Florence, Italy in 1252

• Did You Know: petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freeze at any temperature between -82 and -115C (-180 and -240F)

• Did You Know: sound travels 10 times faster through granite than air

• Did You Know: Japanese people don’t have middle names

• Did You Know: some playing cards in India are round

• Did You Know: the average pool cue is 1.4m (4.75ft) long

• Did You Know: the expression to ‘knuckle down’ originated from playing marbles (players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best shots)

• Did You Know: the first aluminium drink can was introduced in 1964

• Did You Know: the first drug that was sold as a water soluble tablet was aspirin in 1900

• Did You Know: the national anthems of Japan, Jordan, and San Marino each have only 4 lines

• Did You Know: there are only 3 sets of letters on a keyboard which are in alphabetical order (f g h, j k l, and o p)

• Did You Know: women were not allowed to vote in France until 1944

• Did You Know: a bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second

• Did You Know: a dragonfly can fly at 40kph (25mph)

• 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: ants can lift 50 times their own weight

• Did You Know: bees can see ultraviolet light

• Did You Know: 80% of the world’s food crops are pollinated by insects

• Did You Know: 10% of with world’s food supply is consumed by insects

• Did You Know: it takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie

• Did You Know: queen termites can live up to 50 years

• Did You Know: most spiders have transparent blood

• Did You Know: caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles

• Did You Know: the fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h))

• Did You Know: honey bees kill more people each year than snakes

• Did You Know: there are over 100,000 different species of butterflies

• Did You Know: there are over 80,000 different species of ants

• Did You Know: all the planets in our solar system could fit inside Jupiter

• Did You Know: an area of the Suns surface to the equivalent of a postage stamp would shine with the brightness of over 1,500,000 candles

• Did You Know: more than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun

• Did You Know: the world’s first paved streets were laid in Rome in 170 B.C.

• Did You Know: it takes 1,100 watts to power a toaster

• Did You Know: natural gas has no smell (the odour is artificially added so that people are able to identify leaks)

• Did You Know: there are exactly 1,048,576 bytes in 1 megabyte

• Did You Know: rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40 above the horizon)

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• Did You Know: acorns are poisonous to humans (if eaten it can cause damage to your kidneys)

• Did You Know: all hurricanes form over the sea and can last up to 10 days

• Did You Know: there are over 225,000 trees in New York’s Central Park

• Did You Know: chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils

• Did You Know: 80% of the world’s rose species come from Asia

• Did You Know: 5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day

• Did You Know: every living thing on the Earth contains carbon

• Did You Know: the Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest

• Did You Know: it takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl

• Did You Know: the average matures oak tree sheds over 700,000 leaves in Autumn

• Did You Know: onions are part of the lily family

• Did You Know: the primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas)

• Did You Know: the softest known mineral is talc

• Did You Know: ‘orology’ is the study of mountains

• Did You Know: 20% of China’s plants are used in medicine

• Did You Know: 2/3 of the world’s eggplants are grown in the US New Jersey

• Did You Know: humans are the only primates that don’t have pigment in the palms of their hands

• Did You Know: it was once illegal to slam your car door in Switzerland

• Did You Know: moths have white blood

• Did You Know: the diameter of Jupiter is 152,800km (88 700 miles)

• Did You Know: the diameter of Earth is 12,756 km (7,926 miles)

• Did You Know: the diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles)

• Did You Know: Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high

• Did You Know: dolphins can detect underwater sounds from 24 km (15 miles) away

• Did You Know: dinosaurs lived on Earth for over 165 million years before they became extinct

• Did You Know: jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years

• Did You Know: only pregnant female’s polar bears hibernate

• Did You Know: polar bears are strictly carnivores

• Did You Know: sharks have been on Earth for over 400 million years

• Did You Know: some dinosaurs had tails over 13m (45 feet) long

• Did You Know: the average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years

• Did You Know: the tallest mammal is the giraffe

• Did You Know: warthogs can reach speeds of 48km/h (29mph)

• 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: 2 out of 5 people marry their first love

• Did You Know: 30% of people refuse to sit on a public toilet seats

• Did You Know: 45% of people use mouthwash everyday

• Did You Know: less than 20% of shark attacks are fatal

• Did You Know: people in Iceland read more books per capita than any other country

• Did You Know: the average shower temperature is 38C (101F)

• Did You Know: raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun)

• Did You Know: the algae found in the world’s oceans produces nearly 50% of the world’s oxygen

• Did You Know: the game of Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport from 1900-1920

• Did You Know: there are 2,598,960 possible hands in a 5 card poker game

• Did You Know: Nintendo first produced playing cards

• Did You Know: the word denim comes from ‘de Nimes’ or from Nimes which is a town in France

• Did You Know: there are over 600 windows on the Empire State Building

• Did You Know: chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time

• Did You Know: a chameleon’s tongue is twice as long as its body

• Did You Know: a newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall

• Did You Know: a woodpecker can peck 20 times a second

• Did You Know: catfish have over 100,000 taste buds

• Did You Know: the world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand

• Did You Know: England’s Stonehenge is over 5,000 years’ old

• Did You Know: the Eiffel Tower is over 300m (984 ft) tall

• Did You Know: the Eiffel Tower is repainted every 7 years

• Did You Know: the Statue of Liberty weighs over 225 tons

• Did You Know: there are 132 rooms in the US White House

• Did You Know: banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms)

• Did You Know: bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and fibre

• Did You Know: bananas contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium

• Did You Know: over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once a month

• Did You Know: mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet

• Did You Know: mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes

• Did You Know: no two spider webs are the same

• Did You Know: there are over 900,000 known species of insects

• Did You Know: worker ants may live for 7 years and the queen up to 15

• Did You Know: John Cadbury founded the Cadbury chocolate company in England in 1842 producing the first chocolate bars

• Did You Know: Franklin Mars invented the Snickers Bar in 1930

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• Did You Know: Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans which go into the production of chocolate

• Did You Know: 1 plain milk chocolate bar has more protein than a banana

• Did You Know: 52% of Americans drink coffee

• Did You Know: Brazil accounts for 1/3 of the world’s coffee production

• Did You Know: coffee is generally roasted between 204 – 218C (400 – 425F) (the longer the beans are roasted the darker the roast)

• Did You Know: coffee is grown commercially in over 45 countries around the world

• Did You Know: coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year

• Did You Know: coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the US

• Did You Know: as a world commodity coffee is second only to oil

• 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)

• Did You Know: the first ground vacuum packed coffee was first introduced in 1900

• Did You Know: Japan is the 3rd largest consumer of coffee

• Did You Know: over 5 million people in Brazil are employed in the coffee industry

• Did You Know: coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years’ old

• Did You Know: the US is the world’s largest consumer of coffee

• Did You Know: there are around 30 milligrams of caffeine in the average chocolate bar while a cup of coffee has around 100 to 150

• Did You Know: between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars

• Did You Know: Disneyland opened in 1955

• Did You Know: MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. August 1st 1981 (the first music video shown ‘Video killed the radio star’ by the Buggles)

• Did You Know: the 1st full length animated film was released by Disney Studios in 1937 (it was Snow White and the seven dwarfs)

• Did You Know: the hamburger was invented in 1900

• Did You Know: the hottest chili in the world is the habanero

• Did You Know: Australia is the only country that is also a continent

• Did You Know: Europe is the only continent without a desert

• Did You Know: Hawaii officially became a part of the US on June 14 1900

• Did You Know: the dollar was established as the official currency of the US in 1785

• Did You Know: the supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969

• Did You Know: in 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world’s first national park

• Did You Know: a person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation (Death can occur about 10 days without sleep while starvation takes a few weeks)

• Did You Know: the average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime

• Did You Know: an individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body

• Did You Know: by age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds

• Did You Know: every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it

• Did You Know: fingernails grow faster than toenails

• Did You Know: humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime)

• Did You Know: it takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown

• Did You Know: the human body has over 600 muscles (40% of the body’s weight)

• Did You Know: in 1900 the average life span in the US was 47

• Did You Know: the vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words

• Did You Know: DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic acid

• Did You Know: the study of insects is called entomology

• Did You Know: the word ‘karate’ means ’empty hand’

• Did You Know: the Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters

• Did You Know: the word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words ‘fourteen nights’

• Did You Know: wheat is the world’s most widely grown plant

• Did You Know: Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats

• Did You Know: flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome

• Did You Know: the first credit card was a Diner’s Club card issued in 1950

• Did You Know: the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust is aluminium

• Did You Know: the world’s first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York

• Did You Know: the average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks

• Did You Know: the average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime

• Did You Know: the Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons

• Did You Know: sea water is approximately 3.5% salt

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• Did You Know: there are over 900 species of bats

• Did You Know: after bananas a zoo gorilla’s favourite food is celery

• Did You Know: the African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating

• Did You Know: the average American will consume over 465 trees worth of paper over their lifetime

• Did You Know: over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States

• Did You Know: instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962

• Did You Know: in American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items

• Did You Know: ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats

• Did You Know: banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall

• Did You Know: blueberries are very high in antioxidants

• Did You Know: the grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine

• Did You Know: a pumpkin really is a fruit

• Did You Know: laughing lowers levels of stress and strengthens your immune system

• Did You Know: once a women reaches the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%)

• Did You Know: the surface area of your lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court

• Did You Know: England’s first great industry was wool

• Did You Know: the average age at which America’s presidents have taken office is 54

• Did You Know: according to manufacturer Spalding the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces

• Did You Know: the word ‘almost’ is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order

• Did You Know: a pip is one of the spots on die or domino

• Did You Know: the most commonly used word in English conversation is ‘I’

• Did You Know: the number 2 is the only number greater than zero that when added to or multiplied by itself gives you the same result (4)

• Did You Know: the word ‘taxi’ is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese

• Did You Know: ablutophobia is the fear of bathing

• Did You Know: achluophobiais the fear of the dark

• Did You Know: acrophobia is the fear of heights

• Did You Know: agoraphobia is the fear of wide open spaces

• Did You Know: aichmophobia is the fear of needles and pointed objects

• Did You Know: akousticophobia is the fear of noises

• Did You Know: amathophobia is the fear of dust

• Did You Know: atychiphobia is the fear of failure

• Did You Know: brontophobia is the fear of thunderstorms

• Did You Know: catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors

• Did You Know: dendrophobia is the fear of trees

• Did You Know: gatophobia is the fear of cats

• Did You Know: heliophobia is the fear of sunlight

• Did You Know: helminthophobia is the fear of worms

• Did You Know: herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles

• Did You Know: hippophobia is the fear of horses

• Did You Know: iatrophobia is the fear of doctors

• Did You Know: ichthyophobia is the fear of fish

• Did You Know: melissophobia is the fear of bees

• Did You Know: melophobia is the fear of music

• Did You Know: myrmecophobia is the fear of ants

• Did You Know: ombrophobia is the fear of rain

• Did You Know: ornithophobia is the fear of birds

• Did You Know: siderodromophobia is the fear of trains

• Did You Know: tachophobia is the fear of speed

• Did You Know: zoophobia is the fear of animals

• Did You Know: a lions feed once every 3 to 4 days

• Did You Know: lions can’t roar until the age of 2

• Did You Know: an office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet

• Did You Know: you have over 600 muscles

• Did You Know: all owls lay white eggs

• Did You Know: mapping is older than writing

• Did You Know: the bigger the orange the sweeter it is

• Did You Know: from space the brightest man made place is Las Vegas

• Did You Know: sesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

• Did You Know: triscadecaphobia is the fear of the number 13

• Did You Know: the world’s most expensive spice is saffron

• Did You Know: the corkscrew was invented in 1890

• Did You Know: Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car

• Did You Know: after you’ve eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest

• Did You Know: the human eye blinks over 4,200,000 times a year

• Did You Know: the little hole in some sinks that lets the water drain out instead of flowing is called a ‘porcelator’

• Did You Know: the original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy

• Did You Know: the winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely

• Did You Know: there are 2 credit cards for every person in the US

• Did You Know: 40% of Amsterdam commuters get to work by bicycle

• Did You Know: $30 of raw popcorn translates into $3,000 in sales at movie theatres

• Did You Know: a person produces enough saliva to fill 2 average size swimming pools during their lifetime

• Did You Know: the average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year

• Did You Know: the average woman will consume over 2.7kg (6 pounds) of lipstick in their lifetime

• Did You Know: the human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second

• Did You Know: a soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair

• Did You Know: all snakes are carnivorous

• Did You Know: the tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 36.6 meters (120 feet)

• Did You Know: the only letter which doesn’t appear in the Periodic Table is j

• Did You Know: October the 10th is national metric day

• Did You Know: the typewriter was invented in 1829

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• Did You Know: the dishwasher was invented in 1889

• Did You Know: the wristwatch was invented in 1904

• Did You Know: diamonds are the hardest substance known to man

• Did You Know: when hydrogen burns in the air water is formed

• Did You Know: due to gravitational affects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead

• Did You Know: If you could drive to the sun at a speed of 88.5 km/h (55 mp/h) it would take around 193 years

• Did You Know: hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%)

• Did You Know: the moon is 27% the size of the Earth

• Did You Know: the center of the Sun is approximately 15 million C (27 million F)

• Did You Know: sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet)

• Did You Know: cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds

• Did You Know: an astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity)

• Did You Know: the oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years’ old

• Did You Know: there are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person

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