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Did You Know?
Honey is the only natural food which never spoils
M&M’s chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie
That you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)
The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia
The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)
About 90% of the worlds population kisses
Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine
The Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense
Toilets use 35% of indoor water use
The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco
Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
The first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954
All insects have 6 legs
The croissant was invented in Austria
In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas
African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
Australia was originally called New Holland
‘Lonely Planet’ for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia
The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English alphabet
The Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs
All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
Your foot has 26 bones in it
The average human brain contains around 78% water
1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph)
If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050
Sponges hold more cold water than hot