Did You Know?

Did You Know? - Quantifiable - Part 5

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2012/04/29

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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 women are 4 times more likely to shop lift than men
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 a standard 747 jumbo jet has 420 seats
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 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 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 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 the average person consumes over a ton of food and drink 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 warthogs can reach speeds of 48km/h (29mph)