dimanche 26 mai 2013




1.      Did you know between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars

2.      Did you know Disneyland opened in 1955

3.      Did you know MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. August 1st 1981 (the first music video shown 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles)

4.      Did you know the 1st full length animated film was released by Disney Studios in 1937 (it was Snow White and the seven dwarfs)

5.      Did you know the hamburger was invented in 1900

6.      Did you know the hottest chile in the world is the habanero

7.      Did you know Australia is the only country that is also a continent

8.      Did you know Europe is the only continent without a desert

9.      Did you know Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14 1900

10.  Did you know the dollar was established as the official currency of the US in 1785

11.  Did you know the supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969

12.  Did you know in 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world's first national park

13.  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)

14.  Did you know the average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime

15.  Did you know an individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body

16.  Did you know by age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds

17.  Did you know every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it

18.  Did you know fingernails grow faster than toenails

19.  Did you know humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime)

20.  Did you know it takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown

21.  Did you know the human body has over 600 muscles (40% of the bodys weight)

22.  Did you know in 1900 the average life span in the US was 47

23.  Did you know the vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words

24.  Did you know DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid

25.  Did you know the word 'rhythms' is the longest word without any vowels

26.  Did you know the study of insects is called entomology

27.  Did you know the word 'karate' means 'empty hand'

28.  Did you know the Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters

29.  Did you know the word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'

30.  Did you know wheat is the world's most widely grown plant

31.  Did you know Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats

32.  Did you know flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome

33.  Did you know the first credit card was a Diner's Club card issued in 1950

34.  Did you know the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum

35.  Did you know the world's first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York

36.  Did you know there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube

37.  Did you know the average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks

38.  Did you know the average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime

39.  Did you know the Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons

40.  Did you know sea water is approximately 3.5% salt

41.  Did you know there are over 900 species of bats

42.  Did you know after bananas a zoo gorilla's favorite food is celery

43.  Did you know the African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating

44.  Did you know the average American will consume over 465 trees worth of paper over their lifetime

45.  Did you know over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States

46.  Did you know instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962

47.  Did you know in American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items

48.  Did you know ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats

49.  Did you know banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall

50.  Did you know blueberries are very high in antioxidants

51.  Did you know the grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine

52.  Did you know a pumpkin really is a fruit

53.  Did you know laughing lowers levels of stress and strengthens your immune system

54.  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%)

55.  Did you know the surface area of your lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court

56.  Did you know England's first great industry was wool

57.  Did you know the average age at which America's presidents have taken office is 54

58.  Did you know according to manufacturer Spalding the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces

59.  Did you know the word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order

60.  Did you know a pip is one of the spots on dice or domino

61.  Did you know the most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'

62.  Did you know the number 2 is the only number greater than zero that when added to or multiplied by itself gives you the same result (4)

63.  Did you know the word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese

64.  Did you know ablutophobia is the fear of bathing

65.  Did you know achluophobiais the fear of the dark

66.  Did you know acrophobia is the fear of heights

67.  Did you know agoraphobia is the fear of wide open spaces

68.  Did you know aichmophobia is the fear of needles and pointed objects

69.  Did you know akousticophobia is the fear of noises

70.  Did you know amathophobia is the fear of dust

71.  Did you know atychiphobia is the fear of failure

72.  Did you know brontophobia is the fear of thunderstorms

73.  Did you know catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors

74.  Did you know dendrophobia is the fear of trees

75.  Did you know gatophobia is the fear of cats

76.  Did you know heliophobia is the fear of sunlight

77.  Did you know helminthophobia is the fear of worms

78.  Did you know herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles

79.  Did you know hippophobia is the fear of horses

80.  Did you know iatrophobia is the fear of doctors

81.  Did you know ichthyophobia is the fear of fish

82.  Did you know melissophobia is the fear of bees

83.  Did you know melophobia is the fear of music

84.  Did you know myrmecophobia is the fear of ants

85.  Did you know ombrophobia is the fear of rain

86.  Did you know ornithophobia is the fear of birds

87.  Did you know siderodromophobia is the fear of trains

88.  Did you know tachophobia is the fear of speed

89.  Did you know zoophobia is the fear of animals

90.  Did you know a lions feed once every 3 to 4 days

91.  Did you know lion's can't roar until the age of 2

92.  Did you know an office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet

93.  Did you know you have over 600 muscles

94.  Did you know all owls lay white eggs

95.  Did you know mapping is older than writing

96.  Did you know the bigger the orange the sweeter sweeter it is

97.  Did you know from space the brightest man made place is Las Vegas

98.  Did you know Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

99.  Did you know triscadecaphobia is the fear of the number 13

100.   Did you know the world's most expensive spice is saffron

101.   Did you know the corkscrew was invented in 1890

102.    Did you know Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car

103.    Did you know after you’ve eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest

104.    Did you know the human eye blinks over 4,200,000 times a year

105.     Did you know the little hole in some sinks that lets the water drain out instead of flowing is called a 'porcelator'

106.     Did you know the original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy

107.    Did you know the winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely

108.    Did you know there are 2 credit cards for every person in the US

109.    Did you know 40% of Amsterdam commuters get to work by bicycle

110.    Did you know $30 of raw popcorn translates into $3,000 in sales at movie theaters

111.    Did you know a person produces enough saliva to fill 2 average size swimming pools during their lifetime

112.    Did you know the average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year

113.    Did you know the average woman will consume over 2.7kg (6 pounds) of lipstick in their lifetime

114.    Did you know the human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second

115.    Did you know a soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair

116.   Did you know all snakes are carnivorous

117.    Did you know the tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 36.6 meters (120 feet)

118.   Did you know the only letter which doesn't appear in the Periodic Table is j

119.    Did you know October the 10th is national metric day

120.    Did you know the typewriter was invented in 1829

121.   Did you know the dishwasher was invented in 1889

122.   Did you know the wristwatch was invented in 1904

123.   Did you know diamonds are the hardest substance known to man

124.   Did you know when hydrogen burns in the air water is formed

125.    Did you know due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead

126.   Did you know If you could drive to the sun at a speed of 88.5 km/h (55 mp/h) it would take around 193 years

127.    Did you know hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%)

128.   Did you know the moon is 27% the size of the Earth

129.   Did you know the center of the Sun is approximately 15 million °C (27 million °F)

130.   Did you know sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet)

131.   Did you know cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds

132.    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)

133.   Did you know the oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old

134.   Did you know there are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person.