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- Did you know the average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime
- Did you know an individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body
- Did you know by age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds
- Did you know every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it
- Did you know humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime)
- Did you know it takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
- Did you know the human body has over 600 muscles (40% of the bodys weight)
- Did you know in 1900 the average life span in the US was 47
- Did you know the vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words
- Did you know the Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters
- Did you know the word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'
- Did you know the average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks
- Did you know the Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons
- Did you know sea water is approximately 3.5% salt
- Did you know there are over 900 species of bats
- Did you know the African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating
- Did you know the average American will consume over 465 trees worth of paper over their lifetime
- Did you know over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States
- Did you know banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall
- 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%)