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  1. Did you know 11% of people are left handed
  2. Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
  3. Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
  4. Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib
  5. Did you know the smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear
  6. Did you know stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
  7. Did you know that you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)
  8. Did you know all the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
  9. Did you know your foot has 26 bones in it
  10. Did you know the average human brain contains around 78% water
  11. Did you know a 1/4 of your bones are in your feet
  12. Did you know your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body
  13. Did you know a 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories
  14. Did you know you burn more calories sleeping than watching TV
  15. Did you know an average person will spend 25 years asleep
  16. Did you know the most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression
  17. Did you know your skin is the largest organ making up the human body
  18. Did you know the hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other
  19. Did you know your most sensitive finger is your index finger (closest to your thumb)
  20. Did you know the human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold
  21. Did you know women blink twice as much as men
  22. Did you know Scotland has the most redheads
  23. Did you know household dust is made of dead skin cells
  24. Did you know the word 'testify' derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles
  25. Did you know you take over 23,000 breaths everyday
  26. Did you know your foot and your forearm are the same length
  27. Did you know you burn more calories sleeping than watching television
  28. Did you know 56% of typing is completed by your left hand
  29. Did you know human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
  30. Did you know more people are allergic to cows milk than any other food
  31. Did you know your mouth produces 1 litre of saliva a day
  32. Did you know your head contains 22 bones
  33. Did you know the coloured part of your eye is called the iris
  34. Did you know if your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times
  35. Did you know everyone has a unique tongue print
  36. Did you know you begin to feel thirsty when your body losses 1% of water
  37. Did you know hiccups usually lasts for 5 minutes
  38. Did you know not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks)
  39. Did you know your most active muscles are in your eye
  40. Did you know your liver has over 500 functions
  41. Did you know your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe
  42. Did you know horses have 18 more bones than humans
  43. Did you know blonde beards grow faster than darker beards
  44. Did you know when recognising a persons face you use the right side of your brain
  45. Did you know the human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels
  46. Did you know the hydrochloric acid found in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail
  47. Did you know on average you blink 25,000 a day
  48. Did you know men have 10% more red blood cells than women
  49. Did you know you have fewer muscles than a caterpillar
  50. Did you know when your face blushes so does your stomach lining
  51. Did you know 1 square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands
  52. Did you know your normal body temperature is 37C (99F)
  53. Did you know red blood cells are produced in bone marrow
  54. Did you know you shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks
  55. Did you know a Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure
  56. Did you know oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body
  57. Did you know the fingerprints of koala bear are indistinguishable to that of a human
  58. Did you know the average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime
  59. Did you know the longest word that can be typed using only our right hand is 'lollipop'
  60. Did you know people who work at night tend to weigh more
  61. Did you know wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
  62. Did you know new born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206)
  63. Did you know you use 72 different muscles while speaking
  64. Did you know the most common disease is tooth decay
  65. Did you know the average person goes to the toilet 6 times a day
  66. Did you know your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects
  67. Did you know the longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years
  68. Did you know your right lung takes in more air than your left
  69. Did you know womens hearts beat faster than mens
  70. Did you know the average person has 10,000 taste buds
  71. Did you know the ideal temperature to fall asleep is between 18-30c (64-86f)
  72. Did you know honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten
  73. 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
  74. 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
  75. Did you know the hardest substance in the human body is enamel
  76. Did you know there are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body
  77. Did you know the number 1 cause of blindness in the US is diabetes
  78. Did you know every year over 98% of atoms in your body are replaced
  79. Did you know your blood is 6 times thicker than water
  80. Did you know 44% of people have broken a bone
  81. Did you know the human eye can detect more shades of green that any other colour
  82. Did you know you can't tickle yourself
  83. Did you know the average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
  84. Did you know a baby fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
  85. Did you know a hippopotamus can run faster than a man
  86. Did you know the night vision of tigers is 6 times better than humans
  87. Did you know the average person consumes over a ton of food and drink each year
  88. Did you know there are over 100 different viruses that cause the common cold
  89. Did you know acorns are poisonous to humans (if eaten it can cause damage to your kidneys)
  90. Did you know humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands
  91. 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)
  92. Did you know the average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime
  93. Did you know an individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body
  94. Did you know by age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds
  95. Did you know every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it
  96. Did you know fingernails grow faster than toenails
  97. Did you know humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime)
  98. Did you know it takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
  99. Did you know the human body has over 600 muscles (40% of the bodys weight)
  100. Did you know in 1900 the average life span in the US was 47
  101. Did you know DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid
  102. Did you know the average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime
  103. Did you know laughing lowers levels of stress and strengthens your immune system
  104. 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%)
  105. Did you know the surface area of your lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court
  106. Did you know you have over 600 muscles
  107. Did you know after you`ve eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest
  108. Did you know the human eye blinks over 4,200,000 times a year
  109. Did you know a person produces enough saliva to fill 2 average size swimming pools during their lifetime
  110. Did you know the average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year
  111. Did you know the human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second
  112. Did you know a soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair
  113. Did you know an astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity)
  114. Did you know there are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person

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