1. Did you know the rarest type of diamond is green
2. Did you know MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge
3. Did you know the US flag has 13 stripes (representing the original 13 states)
4. Did you know the first city to reach 1 million was London
5. Did you know men are stuck by lightning 7 times more than women
6. Did you know Tokyo was once known as Edo
7. Did you know women make up 49% of the worlds population
8. Did you know wine is sold in tinted bottles because it spoils when exposed to light
9. Did you know the tea bag was invented in 1908
10. Did you know carrots contain 0% fat
11. Did you know 1 billion snails are served in restaurants each year
12. Did you know plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970
13. Did you know the $ sign was introduced in 1788
14. Did you know the meaning of 'Blue Chip' comes from blue casino chips which have a high value
15. Did you know DVDs are physically the same size as a CDs but can store 13 times more data
16. Did you know the term 'disc jockey' was first used in 1937
17. Did you know hot water freezes quicker than cold water
18. Did you know sound travels 3 times faster through water than in air
19. Did you know the average soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels and held together by 642 stitches
20. Did you know soccer is the most followed sport
21. Did you know volleyball was invented in 1895
22. Did you know that in developed countries 27% of food is thrown away
23. Did you know the odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1
24. Did you know the first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmh (5 mph)
25. Did you know Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second
26. Did you know it takes 1 alligator to make a pair of shoes and 3 for a pair of boots
27. Did you know your most active muscles are in your eye
28. Did you know a banana contains 75% water
29. Did you know 13 people die every year from vending machines
30. Did you know rain contains vitamin B12
31. Did you know your liver has over 500 functions
32. Did you know your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe
33. Did you know after Hawaii, New York is the state surrounded by the most water
34. Did you know ice skating rinks always go counter clock wise (for the majority of people that are right handed needing to hang onto the rail)
35. Did you know sponges hold more cold water than hot
36. Did you know a flea can jump 350 times its body length
37. Did you know cucumbers are 96% water.
38. Did you know a full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon
39. Did you know a honeybee's top speed is 24kph (15mph)
40. Did you know a humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute)
41. Did you know flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway
42. Did you know horses have 18 more bones than humans
43. Did you know a cheetahs top speed is 114kph (70mph)
44. Did you know horses sleep standing up
45. Did you know a jellyfish is 95% water
46. Did you know bats are the only mammals that fly
47. Did you know a cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through
48. Did you know every day 7% of the US eats at McDonalds
49. Did you know a snail can sleep for 3 years
50. Did you know tigers have striped skin as well as fur
51. Did you know crocodiles are colour blind
52. Did you know a chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body
53. Did you know dogs sweat through the pads on their feet
54. Did you know hippopotamuses are born under water
55. Did you know bananas grow pointing upwards.
56. Did you know whales can't swim backwards
57. Did you know camels are born without humps
58. Did you know only female mosquitoes bite
59. Did you know the average porcupine has 30,000 spikes
60. Did you know tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food
61. Did you know crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river
62. Did you know there are more insects in the world than all other animals combined
63. Did you know giraffes can't swim
64. Did you know crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper
65. Did you know an elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water
66. Did you know bull's can run faster uphill than down
67. Did you know a shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel
68. Did you know a moth has no stomach
69. Did you know grasshoppers have white blood
70. Did you know it takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg
71. Did you know New York was once called New Amsterdam
72. Did you know there is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined
73. Did you know Brazil got its name from the Brazilian nut (not the other way around)
74. Did you know the moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days
75. Did you know more than 75% of all countries are north of the equator
76. Did you know Yugoslavia is bordered by 7 other countries
77. Did you know 2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover a full stop (.)
78. Did you know Hawaii officially became apart of the US in 1900
79. Did you know the D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Columbia
80. Did you know New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline
81. Did you know The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake
82. Did you know there are no rivers in Saudi Arabia
83. Did you know the largest exporter of sugar is Cuba
84. Did you know dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow
85. Did you know Icelandic phone books are listed by first names (not surnames)
86. Did you know 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years
87. Did you know the water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink
88. Did you know Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January
89. Did you know the Moons diameter is 3,476km
90. Did you know New York's Central Park was opened in 1876
91. Did you know the subject of the first printed book in England was about chess
92. Did you know the word old English word 'juke' meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box
93. Did you know EMI awards stands for 'Electrical and Musical Instruments'
94. Did you know the most sung song is happy birthday
95. Did you know the first rugby club was formed in 1843
96. Did you know the most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb
97. Did you know the yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines
98. Did you know draughts (checkers) is older than chess
99. Did you know orienteering originated from Sweden
100. Did you know blonde beards grow faster than darker beards
