NEW TECH - Did You Know ?

Did you knowthe typical wave height from Pacific tsunami is between 6 - 9 meters
Did you knowclouds fly higher during the day than the night
Did you knowwhen born a baby giraffe is 1.8m (6ft) tall
Did you knowMount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high
Did you knowthe tallest mammal is the giraffe
Did you knowa newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall
Did you knowthe Eiffel Tower is over 300m (984 ft) tall
Did you knowbanana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall
Did you knowacrophobia is the fear of heights
Did you knowan astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity)

Did you knowin a deck of cards the king of harts is the only king without a moustache
Did you knowMonopoly is the most played board game in the world
Did you knowthe opposite sides of a dice always adds up to 7
Did you knowthe original design of Monopoly was circular
Did you knowdraughts (checkers) is older than chess
Did you knowthere are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube
Did you knowa Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes
Did you knowa deck of cards should be shuffled at least 7 times before playing
Did you knoweveryday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury
Did you knowthe dollar values on the board game Monopoly have been the same since 1935
Did you knowthe makers of the board game Monopoly print over 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money every year
Did you knowthe first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913
Did you knowsome playing cards in India are round
Did you knowthe expression to 'knuckle down' originated from playing marbles (players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best shots)
Did you knowthe game of Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport from 1900-1920
Did you knowNintendo first produced playing cards
Did you knowthere are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube
Did you knowa pip is one of the spots on dice or domino

Did you knowunless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
Did you knowno two corn flakes look the same
Did you knowlemons contain more sugar than strawberries
Did you knowrabbits like licorice
Did you knowreindeer like bananas
Did you knowSwitzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
Did you knowmacadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
Did you knowthere is no such thing as a naturally blue food
Did you knowhoney is the only natural food which never goes off
Did you knowM&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie
Did you knowthat you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)
Did you knowCoca-Cola originally contained cocaine
Did you knowthe fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco
Did you knowthe first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954
Did you knowthe croissant was invented in Austria
Did you knowIn eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas
Did you knowa strawberry is the only fruit which seeds grow on the outside
Did you knowpop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians
Did you knowfrench fries are originally from Belgium
Did you knowapples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee

Did you knowthe first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954
Did you knowthat the first MTV video played was 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles
Did you knowin 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names
Did you knowthe first sailing boats were built in Egypt
Did you knowHilton was the first international hotel chain
Did you knowNew York was the first capital of the United States
Did you knowThe first English dictionary was written in 1755
Did you knowthe first city to reach 1 million was London
Did you knowplastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970
Did you knowthe term 'disc jockey' was first used in 1937
Did you knowthe first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmh (5 mph)
Did you knowthe subject of the first printed book in England was about chess
Did you knowthe first rugby club was formed in 1843
Did you knowNew Zealands first hospital was opened in 1843
Did you knowthe first metered taxi was introduced in 1907
Did you knowcars were first started with ignition keys in 1949
Did you knowpaper money was first used in China
Did you knowBritain was the first country to use postage stamps
Did you knowIceland was the first country to legalise abortion in 1935
Did you knowthe first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum

Saturday, July 7, 2012