Did You Know?

Did You Know? - Quantifiable - Part 1

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2012/04/29

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Did you know 11% of people are left handed
Did you know a bear has 42 teeth
Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib
Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
Did you know a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
Did you know cats spend 66% of their life asleep
Did you know Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
Did you know when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)
Did you know Tennessee is bordered by 8 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia - more than any other in the US
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 sound travels almost 5 times faster underwater than in air
Did you know toilets use 35% of indoor water use
Did you know Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
Did you know the average speed of a skydiver is 200kph (124mph)
Did you know all insects have 6 legs
Did you know that 90% of an iceberg sits under water

Did you know African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
Did you know a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
Did you know the Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs
Did you know all the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
Did you know your foot has 26 bones in it
Did you know the average human brain contains around 78% water
Did you know your brain uses between 20 - 25% of the oxygen your breathe
Did you know 1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph)
Did you know if you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050
Did you know lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
Did you know cats have over 100 vocal chords
Did you know elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period
Did you know a 1/4 of your bones are in your feet
Did you know a 'jiffy' is actually 1/100th of a second
Did you know on your birthday you share it with 9 million others
Did you know 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
Did you know a 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories
Did you know a hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute
Did you know dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk
Did you know in 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names

Did you know an average person will spend 25 years asleep
Did you know there are 31,557,600 seconds in a year
Did you know there are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo
Did you know room temperature is defined as between 20 to 25°C (68 to 77°F)
Did you know the movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor's salaries
Did you know there are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous)
Did you know 'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters
Did you know the average golf ball has 336 dimples
Did you know the word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel
Did you know the movie 'Wayne's World' was filmed in two weeks
Did you know the Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply
Did you know Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent
Did you know 96% of candles sold are purchased by women
Did you know 42% of men and women 25% don’t wash their hands after using a public toilet
Did you know Jamaica has 120 rivers
Did you know cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees
Did you know cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length
Did you know China manufacturers 70% of the worlds toys
Did you know The Great Wall of China is approximately 6,430 Km long (3,995 miles)
Did you know all of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20

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