Did You Know?

Did You Know? - Quantifiable - Part 2

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2012/04/29

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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 women blink twice as much as men
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
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 you take over 23,000 breaths everyday
Did you know when water freezes it expans by 9%
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 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 dice always adds up to 7
Did you know the Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps
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 Germany borders 9 other countries
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 female lions complete 90% of the hunting in their herd
Did you know the lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
Did you know 56% of typing is completed by your left hand
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 the Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets
Did you know there are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty's crown
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 average person laughs 10 times a day
Did you know your mouth produces 1 litre of saliva a day

Did you know your head contains 22 bones
Did you know you breathe 23,000 times 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 a dolphins top speed is 60kmh (37mph)
Did you know a sharks top speed is 70kmh (44mph)
Did you know there are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people)
Did you know African elephants only have 4 teeth
Did you know during a total solar eclipse the temperature can drop by 6°C (20°F)
Did you know the US flag has 13 stripes (representing the original 13 states)
Did you know the first city to reach 1 million was London
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 DVDs are physically the same size as a CDs but can store 13 times more data
Did you know sound travels 3 times faster through water than in air