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Did You Know? - Statistics - Part 4

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2012/04/29

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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 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 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
Did you know new born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206)
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 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 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 the most common time for a wake up call is 7am
Did you know giraffes has 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 colors
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 every year the sun loses 360 million tons
Did you know the shell is 12% of an eggs weight
Did you know the longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'
Did you know the average American eats 263 eggs a year
Did you know in 75% of American households women manage the money and pay the bills
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 womens hearts beat faster than mens
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 woodpeckers tongue can wrap around its head twice
Did you know employees are more likely to book holidays off work on a Monday that any other week day
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 flamingoes can live up to 80 years
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 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 shrimps are all born male but slowly grow into females
Did you know the average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day
Did you know there are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos
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

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