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Did You Know? - Statistics - Part 7

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2012/04/29

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Did you know the world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand
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 Statue of Liberty weighs over 225 tons
Did you know there are 132 rooms in the US White House
Did you know bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and fiber
Did you know bananas contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium
Did you know over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once a month
Did you know mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes
Did you know no two spider webs are the same
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 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 as a world commodity coffee is second only to oil
Did you know dark roasted coffee beans contain less caffeine than medium roasted ones (the longer a coffee is roasted the more caffeine is burns off)

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 the US is the world's largest consumer of coffee
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 the hottest chile in the world is the habanero
Did you know Europe is the only continent without a desert
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
Did you know an individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body
Did you know by age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds
Did you know every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it
Did you know fingernails grow faster than toenails
Did you know humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime)
Did you know it takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
Did you know the human body has over 600 muscles (40% of the bodys weight)
Did you know in 1900 the average life span in the US was 47
Did you know the vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words
Did you know the word 'rhythms' is the longest word without any vowels
Did you know wheat is the world's most widely grown plant

Did you know the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum
Did you know there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube
Did you know the average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime
Did you know the Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons
Did you know sea water is approximately 3.5% salt
Did you know after bananas a zoo gorilla's favorite food is celery
Did you know the average American will consume over 465 trees worth of paper over their lifetime
Did you know over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States
Did you know in American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items
Did you know ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats
Did you know blueberries are very high in antioxidants
Did you know laughing lowers levels of stress and strengthens your immune system
Did you know once a women reachs the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%)
Did you know the surface area of your lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court
Did you know the average age at which America's presidents have taken office is 54
Did you know according to manufacturer Spalding the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces
Did you know the word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order
Did you know the most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'
Did you know the number 2 is the only number greater than zero that when added to or multiplied by itself gives you the same result (4)
Did you know a lions feed once every 3 to 4 days

Did you know lion's can't roar until the age of 2
Did you know an office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet
Did you know you have over 600 muscles
Did you know all owls lay white eggs
Did you know mapping is older than writing
Did you know the bigger the orange the sweeter sweeter it is
Did you know from space the brightest man made place is Las Vegas
Did you know the world's most expensive spice is saffron
Did you know after you’ve eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest
Did you know the human eye blinks over 4,200,000 times a year
Did you know there are 2 credit cards for every person in the US
Did you know 40% of Amsterdam commuters get to work by bicycle
Did you know $30 of raw popcorn translates into $3,000 in sales at movie theaters
Did you know a person produces enough saliva to fill 2 average size swimming pools during their lifetime
Did you know the average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year
Did you know the average woman will consume over 2.7kg (6 pounds) of lipstick in their lifetime
Did you know the human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second
Did you know all snakes are carnivorous
Did you know the tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 36.6 meters (120 feet)
Did you know the only letter which doesn't appear in the Periodic Table is j

Did you know diamonds are the hardest substance known to man
Did you know due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead
Did you know hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%)
Did you know the moon is 27% the size of the Earth
Did you know the center of the Sun is approximately 15 million °C (27 million °F)
Did you know sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet)
Did you know cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds
Did you know an astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity)
Did you know the oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old
Did you know there are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person