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- Did you know you have fewer muscles than a caterpillar
- Did you know you shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks
- Did you know that after petrol, coffee is the largest item bought and sold
- 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 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 red light has the highest wavelength
- Did you know oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body
- Did you know a car travelling at 80kph (50mph) uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance
- Did you know most birds eat twice their body weight each day
- Did you know the bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers
- Did you know the cheetah is the only cat that can't retract it's claws
- Did you know each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child
- Did you know The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year
- Did you know americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips
- Did you know artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991
- Did you know 70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer
- Did you know the average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime
- Did you know 32% of all land in the U.S. is owned by the government
- Did you know the letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1)
- Did you know 1 out of every 8 letters written is an e