Did You Know? - Numbers - Part 3
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- 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 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 ferrets sleep between 18 - 20 hours a day
- Did you know the smallest unit of time is a yoctosecond (1 septillionth which is 10 to the power of negative 24 )
- 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 fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
- 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 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 40kmh (25mph)
- 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 flamingoes can live up to 80 years old
- 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 ostriches can live up to 75 years old
- 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 72kph (45mph)
- Did you know the fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108kph (68mph, 59knots)
- Did you know female condors lays 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 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 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 fox litter is 10 to 15 pups
- 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 you can smell a skunk 1.6km (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 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 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 cabbage is 91% water
- 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 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 80% of all people hit by lightning are men
- Did you know a 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial
- Did you know a nanosecond is one billionth of a second
- 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 petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freezes at any temperature between -82 and -115°C (-180 and -240°F)
- Did you know sound travels 10 times faster through granite than air
- Did you know the average pool cue is 1.4m (4.75ft) long
- 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 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 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 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 there are over 100,000 different species of butterflies
- Did you know there are over 80,000 different species of ants
- 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 Moon weighs 81 billion tons
- Did you know it takes 1,100 watts to power a toaster
- 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)
- 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 80% of the world's rose species come from Asia
- Did you know 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day
- Did you know it takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl
- Did you know the average mature oak tree sheds over 700,000 leaves in Autumn
- 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 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 dolphin's 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 sharks have been on Earth for over 400 million years
- Did you know the average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years
- Did you know warthogs can reach speeds of 48km/h (29mph)
- Did you know warthogs live for 15 years
- 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 the average shower tempreture is 38°C (101°F)
- Did you know the algae found in the world's oceans produces nearly 50% of the world's oxygen
- Did you know there are 2,598,960 possible hands in a 5 card poker game
- Did you know there are over 600 windows on the Empire State Building
- 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 it takes 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg
- 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 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 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 - 218°C (400 - 425°F) (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 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 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 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
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