Did you know that;
- 70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer
- the average person goes to the toilet 6 times a day
- the revolving door was invented in 1888
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
- the Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons
- half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18
- emus can't walk backwards
- American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year
- avocados have the most calories of any other fruit
- the most common disease is tooth decay
- it took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa
- coconuts kill over 150 people each year (more than sharks)
- you use 72 different muscles while speaking
- Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick
- that in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion)
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the english language
- there is no proof as to who built the Taj Mahal
- new born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206)
- 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
- over 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year
- there are a million ants for every person on Earth
- Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'
- half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18
- half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18
- 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21
- there are 2 chickens for every person
- 55% of all movies are rated R
- wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
- everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury
- the word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
- Diet Coke was introduced in 1982
- the typical wave height from Pacific tsunami is between 6 - 9 metres
- you can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets)
- Elvis Presley made only 1 television commercial
- most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin
- 45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day
- the oldest exposed surface on Earth is New Zealand's south island
- you can only see a rainbow if have your back to the sun people who work at night tend to weigh more
- 1 out of every 8 letters written is an e
- the longest word that can be typed using only our right hand is 'lollipop'
- the letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1)
- Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine head'
- 32% of all land in the U.S. is owned by the government
- the side of a hammer is called a cheek
- a deck of cards should be shuffled at least 7 times before playing
- the average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime
- Britain was the first country to use postage stamps
- a Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes
- all of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast
- there are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube
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