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Did You Know? - Time - Part 2

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2012/04/29

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Did you know it takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg
Did you know the moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days
Did you know dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow
Did you know 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years
Did you know blonde beards grow faster than darker beards
Did you know on average you blink 25,000 a day
Did you know you shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks
Did you know the world's knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years time will be discovered in those 50 years
Did you know according to the old English time system a moment is 1 and a half minutes
Did you know most birds eat twice their body weight each day
Did you know The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year
Did you know americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips
Did you know the average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime
Did you know 45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day
Did you know wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
Did you know American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year
Did you know the most common time for a wake up call is 7am
Did you know every year the sun loses 360 million tons
Did you know the longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years
Did you know the average bank teller loses $250 every year

Did you know a rat can tread water for 3 days
Did you know bottle nosed whales can dive to a depth of 915 metres (3,000feet) in 2 minutes
Did you know flamingoes can live up to 80 years
Did you know the average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day
Did you know the average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
Did you know a platypus can eat its weight in worms every day
Did you know a fly's recation time is 30 milliseconds
Did you know bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second
Did you know 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day
Did you know the first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days
Did you know honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten
Did you know each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die
Did you know trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely)
Did you know it takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing
Did you know useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years
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 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 most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old
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 female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years
Did you know pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo
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 Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year
Did you know a 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial
Did you know a nanosecond is one billionth of a second
Did you know a bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second
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 queen termites can live up to 50 years
Did you know all hurricanes form over the sea and can last up to 10 days
Did you know 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day
Did you know sharks have been on Earth for over 400 million years
Did you know warthogs live for 15 years

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