Did You Know? Season 1 Episode 19

Did you know that;

1. Europe is the only continent without a desert
2. the average age at which America's presidents have taken office is 54
3. England's first great industry was wool
4. the surface area of your lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court
5. 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%)
6. laughing lowers levels of stress and strengthens your immune system
7. a pumpkin really is a fruit
8. the grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine
9. blueberries are very high in antioxidants
10. banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall
11. ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats
12. in American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items
13. instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962
14. over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States
15. the average American will consume over 465 trees worth of paper over their lifetime
16. the African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating
17. after bananas a zoo gorilla's favorite food is celery
18. there are over 900 species of bats
19. sea water is approximately 3.5% salt
20. the Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons
21. the average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime
22. the average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks
23. there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube
24. the world's first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York
25. the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum
26. the first credit card was a Diner's Club card issued in 1950
27. flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome
28. Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats
29. wheat is the world's most widely grown plant
30. the word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'
31. the Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters
32. the word 'karate' means 'empty hand'
33. the study of insects is called entomology
34. the word 'rhythms' is the longest word without any vowels
35. an individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body
36. DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid
37. the vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words
38. in 1900 the average life span in the US was 47
39. the human body has over 600 muscles (40% of the bodys weight)
40. it takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
41. humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime)
42. fingernails grow faster than toenails
43. every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it
44. by age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds
45. the average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime
46. 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)
47. in 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world's first national park
48. the supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969
49. the dollar was established as the official currency of the US in 1785
50. Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14 1900

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