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  1. Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
  2. Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
  3. Did you know cats spend 66% of their life asleep
  4. Did you know Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
  5. Did you know Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
  6. Did you know all the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
  7. Did you know lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
  8. Did you know elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period
  9. Did you know a 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories
  10. Did you know a hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute
  11. Did you know an average person will spend 25 years asleep
  12. Did you know there are 31,557,600 seconds in a year
  13. Did you know the movie 'Wayne's World' was filmed in two weeks
  14. Did you know small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds
  15. Did you know all of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20
  16. Did you know giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels
  17. Did you know rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated
  18. Did you know the longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes
  19. Did you know Halley's comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062)
  20. Did you know there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year
  21. Did you know Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year
  22. Did you know Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day
  23. Did you know Einstein slept 10 hours a night
  24. Did you know the Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second
  25. Did you know over 2,500 left handed people are killed a year from using right handed products
  26. Did you know gorillas sleep 14 hours a day
  27. Did you know the lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
  28. Did you know a giraffe can go longer without water than a camel
  29. Did you know an iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
  30. Did you know the average hen lays 228 eggs a year
  31. Did you know Oak trees don't produce acorns until they are 50 years old
  32. Did you know hiccups usually lasts for 5 minutes
  33. Did you know the life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days
  34. Did you know Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second
  35. Did you know a humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute)
  36. Did you know a snail can sleep for 3 years
  37. Did you know tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food
  38. Did you know it takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg
  39. Did you know the moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days
  40. Did you know dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow
  41. Did you know 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years
  42. Did you know blonde beards grow faster than darker beards
  43. Did you know on average you blink 25,000 a day
  44. Did you know you shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks
  45. 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
  46. Did you know according to the old English time system a moment is 1 and a half minutes
  47. Did you know most birds eat twice their body weight each day
  48. Did you know The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year
  49. Did you know americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips
  50. Did you know the average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime
  51. Did you know 45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day
  52. Did you know wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
  53. Did you know American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year
  54. Did you know the most common time for a wake up call is 7am
  55. Did you know every year the sun loses 360 million tons
  56. Did you know the longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years
  57. Did you know the average bank teller loses $250 every year
  58. Did you know a rat can tread water for 3 days
  59. Did you know bottle nosed whales can dive to a depth of 915 metres (3,000feet) in 2 minutes
  60. Did you know the average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day
  61. Did you know the average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
  62. Did you know a platypus can eat its weight in worms every day
  63. Did you know a fly's recation time is 30 milliseconds
  64. Did you know bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second
  65. Did you know 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day
  66. Did you know the first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days
  67. Did you know honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten
  68. 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
  69. Did you know trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely)
  70. Did you know it takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing
  71. Did you know useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years
  72. Did you know it takes 1 week to make a jelly bean
  73. Did you know ferrets sleep between 18 - 20 hours a day
  74. Did you know the average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
  75. Did you know recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours
  76. Did you know a baby fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
  77. Did you know most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old
  78. Did you know an ostriches life span is 40-45 years
  79. Did you know wild cobras can live up to 20 years old
  80. Did you know the average cow produces 40 glasses of milk a day
  81. Did you know female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years
  82. Did you know pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo
  83. Did you know the spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours
  84. Did you know camels can drink 94 litres (25 gallons) of water in less than 3 minutes
  85. Did you know Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year
  86. Did you know a 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial
  87. Did you know a nanosecond is one billionth of a second
  88. Did you know a bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second
  89. Did you know flies can react to an object it sees and change direction in less than 30 milliseconds
  90. Did you know a queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day
  91. Did you know queen termites can live up to 50 years
  92. Did you know all hurricanes form over the sea and can last up to 10 days
  93. Did you know 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day
  94. Did you know sharks have been on Earth for over 400 million years
  95. Did you know warthogs live for 15 years
  96. Did you know when baby polar bear cubs are born they cannot see or hear for their first month
  97. Did you know a woodpecker can peck 20 times a second
  98. Did you know England's Stonehenge is over 5,000 years old
  99. Did you know the Eiffel Tower is repainted every 7 years
  100. Did you know dark roasted coffee beans contain less caffeine than medium roasted ones (the longer a coffee is roasted the more caffeine is burns off)
  101. Did you know a person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation (Death can occur about 10 days without sleep while starvation takes a few weeks)
  102. Did you know the average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime
  103. Did you know an individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body
  104. Did you know by age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds
  105. Did you know fingernails grow faster than toenails
  106. Did you know humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime)
  107. Did you know in 1900 the average life span in the US was 47
  108. Did you know the average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks
  109. Did you know the average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime
  110. Did you know the African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating
  111. Did you know the average American will consume over 465 trees worth of paper over their lifetime
  112. Did you know over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States
  113. Did you know once a women reachs the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%)
  114. Did you know a lions feed once every 3 to 4 days
  115. Did you know lion's can't roar until the age of 2
  116. Did you know after you`ve eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest
  117. Did you know the human eye blinks over 4,200,000 times a year
  118. Did you know a person produces enough saliva to fill 2 average size swimming pools during their lifetime
  119. Did you know the human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second
  120. Did you know If you could drive to the sun at a speed of 88.5 km/h (55 mp/h) it would take around 193 years
  121. Did you know cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds
  122. Did you know the oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old


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