Did You Know?

  • Did you know 11% of people are left handed
  • Did you know August has the highest percentage of births
  • Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
  • Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
  • Did you know a bear has 42 teeth
  • Did you know an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
  • Did you know most lipsticks contain fish scales
  • Did you know no two corn flakes look the same
  • Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
  • 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 Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz
  • Did you know rabbits like licorice
  • Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
  • Did you know 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
  • Did you know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
  • Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
  • Did you know reindeer like bananas
  • Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
  • Did you know birds need gravity to swallow
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  • Did you know the most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
  • Did you know the least used letter in the alphabet is Q
  • Did you know the 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English
  • Did you know skiing is the only word with double i
  • Did you know dreamt is the only word that ends in mt
  • Did you know the names of all continents both start and end with the same letter
  • Did you know the first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON
  • Did you know if you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same
  • Did you know a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
  • Did you know Perth is Australia's windiest city
  • Did you know Elvis's middle name was Aron
  • Did you know the flag for Libya is unlike any other being a solid green color
  • Did you know goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
  • Did you know the smallest bones in the human body are found in your 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 money is the number one thing that couples argue about
  • Did you know macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
  • Did you know when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)
  • Did you know spiders are arachnids and not insects
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  • Did you know honey is the only natural food which never goes off
  • Did you know M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie
  • Did you know that you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)
  • Did you know the only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia
  • 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 Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine
  • Did you know in every episode of Seinfeld there is a reference to Superman
  • Did you know the Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense
  • 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 the fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco
  • 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 the first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954
  • Did you know all insects have 6 legs




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