1. Did you know the Nile river flows North
2. Did you know Spain's largest source of income is from tourism
3. Did you know Coca Cola was founded by Joseph A Biedenharn
4. Did you know the first place in the world to allow women to vote New Zealand
5. Did you know the first parachute jump from plane was in 1918 over France
6. Did you know the dollar values on the board game Monopoly have been the same since 1935
7. Did you know the first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days
8. Did you know the first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935
9. Did you know before 1863 the postal service in the US was free
10. Did you know the first taxi service began in New York in 1907
11. Did you know Pez was invented in 1927
12. Did you know the elevator was invented in 1850
13. Did you know the first toothbrush was invented in 1498
14. Did you know honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten
15. Did you know you brain weights 2% of your body weight though uses 20% of all oxygen you breathe and 15% of the bodys blood supply
16. Did you know each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die
17. Did you know the hardest substance in the human body is enamel
18. Did you know there are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body
19. Did you know the number 1 cause of blindness in the US is diabetes
20. Did you know trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely)
21. Did you know rain contains vitamin B12
22. Did you know over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year
23. Did you know clouds fly higher during the day than the night
24. Did you know the Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles)
25. Did you know it takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing
26. Did you know every year over 98% of atoms in your body are replaced
27. Did you know your blood is 6 times thicker than water
28. Did you know clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor)
29. Did you know Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature
30. Did you know the opposite of a 'vacuum' is a 'plenum'
31. Did you know sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air
32. Did you know before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers
33. Did you know the most common Spanish surname is Garcia
34. Did you know 22% of people skip lunch daily
35. Did you know the average person swallows 295 times during a meal
36. Did you know 72% of people eavesdrop
37. Did you know the most popular snack food is potato chips
38. Did you know 45% of people use mouthwash daily
39. Did you know on average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips
40. Did you know the most popular toothbrush color is blue
41. Did you know the US produces 19% of the world's trash
42. Did you know 59% of people say that their average looking
43. Did you know 53% of women don't leave home without makeup on
44. Did you know 44% of people have broken a bone
45. Did you know 9% of people skip breakfast daily
46. Did you know chocolate manufacturers use 40% of the world's almonds
47. Did you know 90% people depend on alarm clocks to wake up
48. Did you know 21% of people don't make their bed in the morning
49. Did you know 85% of women wear the wrong bra size
50. Did you know the number 1 reason why people purchase a mobile phone is for safety
51. Did you know women are 4 times more likely to shop lift than men
52. Did you know per person France consumes the most cheese
53. Did you know the Earth experiences over 50,000 earthquakes a year
54. Did you know 75% of people wouldn't give up their spouse for a night for a $1,000,000
55. Did you know M*A*S*H stood for 'Mobile Army Surgical Hospital'
56. Did you know The TV sitcom Seinfeld was originally called 'The Seinfeld Chronicles'
57. Did you know the first James Bond movie was called 'Dr. No'
58. Did you know 'fan' is short for 'fanatic'
59. Did you know clinophobia is the fear of going to bed
60. Did you know a standard 747 jumbo jet has 420 seats
61. Did you know police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian)
62. Did you know the makers of the board game Monopoly print over 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money every year
63. Did you know Superman dates back to June 1938 (he first appeared in Action Comics No. 1)
64. Did you know the 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash
65. Did you know the average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons
66. Did you know the blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper
67. Did you know the Colgate toothpaste company started out making starch, soap, and candles
68. Did you know the first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913
69. Did you know the human eye can detect more shades of green that any other colour
70. Did you know the number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it
71. Did you know the statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide
72. Did you know the surface area of a brick is 79 cm squared
73. Did you know 3 teaspoons make up 1 tablespoon
74. Did you know useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years
75. Did you know jellyfish don't have a brain
76. Did you know 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star
77. Did you know the Greek national anthem has 158 verses
78. Did you know it takes 1 week to make a jelly bean
79. Did you know you can't tickle yourself
80. Did you know you can't trademark surnames
81. Did you know ferrets sleep between 18 - 20 hours a day
82. Did you know the 'you are here' arrow on maps is called an ideo locator
83. Did you know the smallest unit of time is a yoctosecond (1 septillionth which is 10 to the power of negative 24 )
84. Did you know A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel
85. Did you know a violin contains over 70 separate pieces of wood
86. Did you know there are over 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building
87. Did you know the average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
88. Did you know recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours
89. Did you know a baby fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
90. Did you know a group of foxes is called a skulk
91. Did you know a hippopotamus can run faster than a man
92. Did you know a King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 4 metres (13 feet) long
93. Did you know lions in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year
94. Did you know a male baboon can kill a leopard
95. Did you know rhinoceros have 3 toes on each foot
96. Did you know a shrimp has 5 pairs of legs
97. Did you know elephants can run up to 40kmh (25mph)
98. Did you know baby rattlesnakes are born in August and September
99. Did you know most snakes have 1 lung
100. Did you know camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
