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Tuesday 15 January 2013

Quantifiable did you knows



Did you know 11% of people are left handed
 Did you know a bear has 42 teeth
 Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib
 Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
 Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
 Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
 Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
 Did you know a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
 Did you know cats spend 66% of their life asleep
 Did you know Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
 Did you know when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)
 Did you know Tennessee is bordered by 8 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia - more than any other in the US
 Did you know the longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)
 Did you know about 90% of the worlds population kisses
 Did you know sound travels almost 5 times faster underwater than in air
 Did you know toilets use 35% of indoor water use
 Did you know Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
 Did you know the average speed of a skydiver is 200kph (124mph)
 Did you know all insects have 6 legs
 Did you know that 90% of an iceberg sits under water
Did you know African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
 Did you know a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
 Did you know the Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs
 Did you know all the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
 Did you know your foot has 26 bones in it
 Did you know the average human brain contains around 78% water
 Did you know your brain uses between 20 - 25% of the oxygen your breathe
 Did you know 1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph)
 Did you know if you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050
 Did you know lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
 Did you know cats have over 100 vocal chords
 Did you know elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period
 Did you know a 1/4 of your bones are in your feet
 Did you know a 'jiffy' is actually 1/100th of a second
 Did you know on your birthday you share it with 9 million others
 Did you know 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
 Did you know a 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories
 Did you know a hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute
 Did you know dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk
 Did you know in 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names
 

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