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.
