Did You Know? - Episode 8

Did you know that;

1. hippopotamuses are born under water
2. orienteering originated from Sweden
3. when recognising a persons face you use the right side of your brain
4. blonde beards grow faster than darker beards
5. the human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels
6. the hydrochloric acid found in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail
7. draughts (checkers) is older than chess
8. the most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb
9. the yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines
10. the first rugby club was formed in 1843
11. the most sung song is happy birthday
12. EMI awards stands for 'Electrical and Musical Instruments'
13. the word old English word 'juke' meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box
14. the subject of the first printed book in England was about chess
15. New York's Central Park was opened in 1876
16. the Moons diameter is 3,476km
17. Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January
18. the water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink
19. 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years
20. Icelandic phone books are listed by first names (not surnames)
21. dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow
22. the largest exporter of sugar is Cuba
23. there are no rivers in Saudi Arabia
24. The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake
25. New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline
26. Hawaii officially became apart of the US in 1900
27. the D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Columbia
28. 2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover a full stop (.)
29. Yugoslavia is bordered by 7 other countries
30. more than 75% of all countries are north of the equator
31. the moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days
32. Brazil got its name from the Brazilian nut (not the other way around)
33. there is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined
34. New York was once called New Amsterdam
35. it takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg
36. grasshoppers have white blood
37. a moth has no stomach
38. a shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel
39. bull's can run faster uphill than down
40. an elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water
41. giraffes can't swim
42. crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper
43. there are more insects in the world than all other animals combined
44. crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river
45. tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food
46. the average porcupine has 30,000 spikes
47. only female mosquitoes bite
48. camels are born without humps
49. whales can't swim backwards
50. bananas grow pointing upwards.

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