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  • Did you know11% of people are left handed
  • Did you knowAugust has the highest percentage of births
  • Did you knowunless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
  • Did you knowthe average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
  • Did you knowa bear has 42 teeth
  • Did you knowan ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
  • Did you knowlemons contain more sugar than strawberries
  • Did you know8% of people have an extra rib
  • Did you know85% of plant life is found in the ocean
  • Did you knowRalph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz
  • Did you knowrabbits like licorice
  • Did you knowthe Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters
  • Did you know'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
  • Did you knowa lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
  • Did you knowarmadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
  • Did you knowreindeer like bananas
  • Did you knowthe longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
  • Did you knowbirds need gravity to swallow
  • Did you knowthe most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
  • Did you knowthe 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English
    • Did you knowdreamt is the only word that ends in mt
    • Did you knowthe first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON
    • Did you knowa cat has 32 muscles in each ear
    • Did you knowPerth is Australia's windiest city
    • Did you knowElvis's middle name was Aron
    • Did you knowgoldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
    • Did you knowthe smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear
    • Did you knowcats spend 66% of their life asleep
    • Did you knowSwitzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
    • Did you knowmoney is the number one thing that couples argue about
    • Did you knowmacadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
    • Did you knowwhen lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)
    • Did you knowspiders are arachnids and not insects
    • Did you knoweach time you see a full moon you always see the same side
    • Did you knowstewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
    • Did you knowhoney is the only natural food which never spoils
    • Did you knowM&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie
    • Did you knowthat you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)
    • Did you knowthe only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia
    • Did you knowthe longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)
      • Did you knowabout 90% of the worlds population kisses
      • Did you knowCoca-Cola originally contained cocaine
      • Did you knowthe Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense
      • Did you knowtoilets use 35% of indoor water use
      • Did you knowthe fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco
      • Did you knowKoalas sleep around 18 hours a day
      • Did you knowthe first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954
      • Did you knowall insects have 6 legs
      • Did you knowthe croissant was invented in Austria
      • Did you knowIn eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas
      • Did you knowAfrican Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
      • Did you knowa giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
      • Did you knowAustralia was originally called New Holland
      • Did you know'Lonely Planet' for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia
      • Did you knowthe sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet
      • Did you knowthe Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs
      • Did you knowall the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
      • Did you knowyour foot has 26 bones in it
      • Did you knowthe average human brain contains around 78% water
      • Did you know1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph)


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