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Alyssa (Future Swim Olympian) wrote: "DYK,A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks."

Yes.

Did you know that lightning makes the loud BOOM! noise whenever the lightning hits the air particles?


Cinderglacier the Universal (432hz528hzfelshadowraven) | 14 comments Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people. (sighs. Figures.)"

More hair? Hah, tell that to my hair.


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Nope.


If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.
((So gross!))


message 54: by Sam/Applejack♆ (new)

Sam/Applejack♆ Yah I knew that


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Alyssa (Future Swim Olympian) wrote: "Nope.


If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.
((So gross!))"


Actually, I think it stretches to 34 feet


Did you know this:

picosecond = 0.000,000,000,001 seconds

nanosecond = 0.000,000,001 seconds

microsecond = 0.000,001 seconds

millisecond = 0.001 seconds

week = 604,8000 seconds

leap year = 366 days

millennium = 1,000 years


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Did you know the guidance of the Apollo 11 in 1969 had just 72 kilobytes of memory?


message 57: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 20, 2012 06:37PM) (new)

Did you know that the first computer was invented in 1834, but the Internet wasn't invented until 1991?


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Did you know there are more than 200,000,000 Internet users in the U.S.A.?


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Did you know there is a place you can drive above the clouds? It is 890 feet up in the air. It is located at Millau Viaduct in southern France.


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Did you know the first bicycle was invented in 1813?


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Did you know that Adele is pregnant?


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Yup.


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dyk that on average 12 newborns around the world will be given to the wrong family
really makes you wonder doesnt it


message 64: by Alessia (new)

Alessia (siriostars) Yep. And it does make you think... It's kinda scary if you think about it...


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ikr!!!


message 66: by Crowleaf (new)

Crowleaf Nate wrote: "Did you know that Adele is pregnant?"

No!! Cool....


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Nicole wrote: "dyk that on average 12 newborns around the world will be given to the wrong family
really makes you wonder doesnt it"


That's like a Series of Unfortunate Events :)

DYK that there are over 4,500 species of mammals?


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I think...

DYK that the first person reached the South Pole in 1911?


message 69: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 21, 2012 09:22AM) (new)

DYK that the first car was invented in the 1400's (by Leonardo da Vinci), but the first mass produced car was invented in 1901? Leonardo da Vinci's invention was a self propelled car.


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Crazy Cars

Jeep Hurricane


Has a steering system that can steer all four wheels.

Commuter Cars Tango


This car is so narrow, it can fit sideways into a parking space!

Gibbs Aquada


You can drive the Gibbs Aquada on land and water!

Rinspeed SQuba


A convertible car that can move underwater like a submarine!




message 71: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 21, 2012 09:32AM) (new)

No... why do you ask?


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Oh. Sorry :|


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DYK that silver is the most popular car color?


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Okay




message 75: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 21, 2012 09:47AM) (new)

Did you know that the spacecraft Helios 2 is the fastest spacecraft on earth. It goes around the sun this fast: 42.72 miles/sec.


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DYK that nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 mph?


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DYK that if you eat a big meal or too much, your hearing is less sharp?


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DYK that Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest?


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DYK that the Statue of Liberty's index finger is only 8 feet long?


message 80: by Sam/Applejack♆ (new)

Sam/Applejack♆ Haha cool
DYK that ............I dunno


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DYK that kangaroos can't walk backwards?


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DYK that an eyeball weighs about 1 oz.


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DYK that 1 in 200,000,000 people live to be 116 or older?


message 84: by Alessia (new)

Alessia (siriostars) wow really...?

DYK that an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain


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DYK that koalas and humans are the only animals with the same fingerprints?


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Sage wrote: "oh yeah i knew that.

DYK that every human spent about half an hour as a single cell?"


No.

Did you know that bamboo can grow 3 ft. in 24 hours?


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Naw :)

Did you know that humans have 2-3 million sweat glands.


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Nope.

Did you know that sharks can live up to a century?


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OMG! Really?!

DYK there are as many chickens on earth as there are humans?


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Yes.

Did you know rain has never been recorded at the Atacama Desert in Chile?


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No.

Did you know the first book was made in 3000 BC?


message 92: by Sam/Applejack♆ (new)

Sam/Applejack♆ Haha no.
DYK that your eyes transmit images to your brain upside down?


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DYK that the most children born to one woman was 69? She was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.


message 95: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 21, 2012 05:17PM) (new)

DYK the yin-yang pattern’s earliest use is in Rome? Not China!


message 96: by Sam/Applejack♆ (new)

Sam/Applejack♆ Yes but it would be written forwards.


message 97: by [deleted user] (new)

so ɯʎ qɹɐıu ıs poıuƃ ʇɥıs ɹıƃɥʇ uoʍ


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Did you know it takes only a minute to type this down:

10099989796995949392919089888786858483828180797877767574737271706968676665646362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210?


message 99: by Elizabeth (new)

Elizabeth (fantasynerd365) the point kind of is to post ONE fact and wait for someone to answer and then they post a fact...


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Oops, sorry.


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