Height did you knows

• 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)

Game did you knows

• 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

Food did you knows

• 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

First did you knows

• 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

Famous people did you knows

• Did you knowRalph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz
• Did you knowElvis's middle name was Aron
• Did you knowBill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13
• Did you knowMadonna and Michael Jackson were both born in 1958
• Did you knowIsaac Newton invented the cat door
• Did you knowEinstein slept 10 hours a night
• Did you knowSir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity
• Did you knowLeonardo Da Vinci invented scissors
• Did you knowElvis Presley made only 1 television commercial
• Did you knowShakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'
• Did you knowTiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick
• Did you knowit took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa
• Did you knowbefore beginning his movie career Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto Canada
• Did you knowChevy Chase's real first name is Cornelius
• Did you knowbetween 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars
• Did you knowAlbert Einstein never knew how to drive a car

English language did you knows

• Did you knowthe most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
• Did you knowthe least used letter in the alphabet is Q
• Did you knowdreamt is the only word that ends in mt
• Did you knowthe first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON
• Did you knowthere are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous)
• Did you knowthe oldest word in the English language is 'town'
• Did you know'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters
• Did you knowthe word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel
• Did you knowthe dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle
• Did you knowthe past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'
• Did you knowthe word 'testify' derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles
• Did you knowThe first English dictionary was written in 1755
• Did you knowthe word old English word 'juke' meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box
• Did you know1 out of every 8 letters written is an e
• Did you knowthe longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'
• Did you knowall pilots on international flights identify themselves in English regardless of their country of origin
• 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 word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order
• Did you knowthe most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'

Drink did you knows

• Did you knowCoca-Cola originally contained cocaine
• Did you knowIn eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas
• Did you knowfrogs don’t drink (they absorb water through their skin)
• Did you knowCoca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961
• Did you knowapples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee
• Did you knowinstant coffee was invented in 1901
• Did you knowthere is no butter in buttermilk
• Did you knowyour more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
• Did you knowHawaii is the only US state that grows coffee
• Did you knowIceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country
• Did you knowmore people are allergic to cows milk than any other food
• Did you knowwine is sold in tinted bottles because it spoils when exposed to light
• Did you knowthe tea bag was invented in 1908
• Did you knowplastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970
• Did you knowthat after petrol, coffee is the largest item bought and sold
• Did you knowthe drinking straw was invented in 1886
• Did you know70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer
• Did you knowthe average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime
• Did you knowDiet Coke was introduced in 1982
• Did you knowIceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country

Distance did you knows

• Did you knowthe longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
• Did you knowthe longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)
• Did you knowsound travels almost 5 times faster underwater than in air
• Did you knowcats can jump up to 7 times their tail length
• Did you knowThe Great Wall of China is approximately 6,430 Km long (3,995 miles)
• Did you knowif your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times
• Did you knowsound travels 3 times faster through water than in air
• Did you knowa flea can jump 350 times its body length
• Did you knowNew York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline
• Did you knowthe Moons diameter is 3,476km
• Did you knowthe human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels
• Did you knowdolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away
• Did you knowostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine
• Did you knowsharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away
• Did you knowthe Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles)
• Did you knowsound travels 15 times faster through steel than air
• Did you knowyou can smell a skunk 1.6km (1 mile) away
• Did you knowthe diameter of Jupiter is 152,800km (88 700 miles)
• Did you knowthe diameter of Earth is 12,756 km (7,926 miles)
• Did you knowthe diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles)

Date did you knows

• Did you knowmonths that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th
• Did you knowMarch 14 is 'save a spider day'
• Did you knowMTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. August 1st 1981 (the first music video shown 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles)
• Did you knowHawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14 1900
• Did you knowthe supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969
• Did you knowOctober the 10th is national metric da

Country did you knows

• Did you knowthe Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
• Did you know'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
• Did you knowPerth is Australia's windiest city
• Did you knowthe flag for Libya is unlike any other being a solid green color
• Did you knowSwitzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
• Did you knowTennessee is bordered by 8 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia - more than any other in the US
• Did you knowthe only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia
• Did you knowthe longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)
• Did you knowthe croissant was invented in Austria
• Did you knowIn eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas
• Did you knowAfrican Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
• Did you knowAustralia was originally called New Holland
• Did you know'Lonely Planet' for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia
• Did you knowhippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal
• Did you knowthe coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity
• Did you knowfrench fries are originally from Belgium
• Did you knowVenetian blinds were invented in Japan
• Did you knowthe first sailing boats were built in Egypt
• Did you knowBrazil is named after a tree
• Did you knowBrazil covers 50% of the South American continent

Colour did you knows

• Did you knowa lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
• Did you knowthe flag for Libya is unlike any other being a solid green color
• Did you knowgoldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
• Did you knowthere is no such thing as a naturally blue food
• Did you knowat birth dalmations are always white
• Did you knowblack on yellow are the 2 colors with the strongest impact
• Did you knowthe safest car color is white
• Did you knowa cats urine glows under a blacklight
• Did you knowwhite cats with blue eyes are usually deaf
• Did you knowScotland has the most redheads
• Did you knowscorpions glow under ultra violet light
• Did you knowMars appears red because it's covered in rust
• Did you knowthe coloured part of your eye is called the iris
• Did you knowthe rarest type of diamond is green
• Did you knowthe meaning of 'Blue Chip' comes from blue casino chips which have a high value
• Did you knowcrocodiles are colour blind
• Did you knowgrasshoppers have white blood
• Did you knowblonde beards grow faster than darker beards
• Did you knowred light has the highest wavelength
• Did you knowturnips turn green when sunburnt

Can't did you knows

• Did you knowunless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
• Did you knowfrogs can't swallow with their eyes open
• Did you knowa duck can't walk without bobbing its head
• Did you knowa crocodile can't move its tongue
• Did you knowcats can't move their jaw sideways
• Did you knowa crocodile can't stick out its tongue
• Did you knowhummingbirds can't walk
• Did you knowowls can't move their eyes from side to side
• Did you knowemus can't walk backwards
• Did you knowwhales can't swim backwards
• Did you knowgiraffes can't swim
• Did you knowthe cheetah is the only cat that can't retract it's claws
• Did you knowroosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks
• Did you knowemus can't walk backwards
• Did you knowsnakes can't blink
• Did you knowsnakes can't bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise)
• Did you knowgorillas can't swim
• Did you knowgiraffes can't cough
• Did you knowyou can't tickle yourself
• Did you knowyou can't trademark surnames

Brand did you knows

• Did you knowno two corn flakes look the same
• Did you knowM&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie
• Did you knowCoca-Cola originally contained cocaine
• Did you knowthe first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954
• Did you know'Lonely Planet' for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia
• Did you knowthere are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo
• Did you knowCoca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961
• Did you knowthe Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service
• Did you knowHilton was the first international hotel chain
• Did you knowthe brand Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland
• Did you knowPorsche also builds tractors
• Did you knowIceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country
• Did you knowMasterCard was originally called MasterCharge
• Did you knowthe last Play Boy centerfold to have staples was published in 1985
• Did you knowthere are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube
• Did you knowDiet Coke was introduced in 1982
• Did you know40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
• Did you knowthe first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum
• Did you knowthe first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint
• Did you knowIceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country

Average did you knows

• Did you knowthe average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
• Did you knowthe average speed of a skydiver is 200kph (124mph)
• Did you knowthe average human brain contains around 78% water
• Did you knowan average person will spend 25 years asleep
• Did you knowthe average golf ball has 336 dimples
• Did you knowthe average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites
• Did you knowthe average hen lays 228 eggs a year
• Did you knowthe average person laughs 10 times a day
• Did you knowthe average soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels and held together by 642 stitches
• Did you knowthe average porcupine has 30,000 spikes
• Did you knowthere is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive the average car 4 times around the world
• Did you knowthe average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime
• Did you knowthe average person goes to the toilet 6 times a day
• Did you knowthe average American eats 263 eggs a year
• Did you knowthe average bank teller loses $250 every year
• Did you knowthe average person has 10,000 taste buds
• Did you knowthe average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day
• Did you knowthe average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
• Did you knowthe average person swallows 295 times during a meal
• Did you knowon average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips