Did You Know?

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2012/04/29

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Did you know Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
Did you know the human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold
Did you know Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year
Did you know crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper
Did you know the bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers
Did you know each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child
Did you know The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year
Did you know people who work at night tend to weigh more
Did you know the Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons
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 average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day
Did you know a platypus can eat its weight in worms every day
Did you know 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day
Did you know you brain weights 2% of your body weight though uses 20% of all oxygen you breathe and 15% of the bodys blood supply
Did you know the average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons
Did you know a blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses
Did you know a bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight
Did you know the skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight
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 the average person consumes over a ton of food and drink each year
Did you know the Moon weighs 81 billion tons
Did you know 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day
Did you know the Statue of Liberty weighs over 225 tons
Did you know the human body has over 600 muscles (40% of the bodys weight)
Did you know the Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons
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 due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead

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