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- Did you know an elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water
- Did you know it takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg
- Did you know there is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined
- Did you know the moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days
- Did you know more than 75% of all countries are north of the equator
- Did you know 2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover a full stop (.)
- Did you know New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline
- Did you know 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years
- Did you know the Moons diameter is 3,476km
- Did you know the human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels
- Did you know on average you blink 25,000 a day
- Did you know 1 square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands
- Did you know your normal body temperature is 37C (99F)
- Did you know you shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks
- Did you know minus 40C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40F
- Did you know there is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive the average car 4 times around the world
- Did you know Sir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity
- Did you know the world's knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years time will be discovered in those 50 years
- Did you know according to the old English time system a moment is 1 and a half minutes
- Did you know oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body