did you know that ......

·         Did you know before 1863 the postal service in the US was free

·         Did you know the first taxi service began in New York in 1907

·         Did you know Pez was invented in 1927

·         Did you know the elevator was invented in 1850

·         Did you know the first toothbrush was invented in 1498

·         Did you know honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten

·         Did you know you brain weights 2% of your body weight though uses 20% of all oxygen you breathe and 15% of the bodys blood supply

·         Did you know each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die

·         Did you know the hardest substance in the human body is enamel

·         Did you know there are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body

·         Did you know the number 1 cause of blindness in the US is diabetes

·         Did you know trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely)

·         Did you know rain contains vitamin B12

·         Did you know over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year

·         Did you know clouds fly higher during the day than the night

·         Did you know the Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles)

·         Did you know it takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing

·         Did you know every year over 98% of atoms in your body are replaced

·         Did you know your blood is 6 times thicker than water

·         Did you know clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor)

·         Did you know Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature

·         Did you know the opposite of a 'vacuum' is a 'plenum'

·         Did you know sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air

·         Did you know before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers

·         Did you know the most common Spanish surname is Garcia

·         Did you know 22% of people skip lunch daily

·         Did you know the average person swallows 295 times during a meal

·         Did you know 72% of people eavesdrop

·         Did you know the most popular snack food is potato chips

·         Did you know 45% of people use mouthwash daily

·         Did you know on average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips

·         Did you know the most popular toothbrush color is blue

·         Did you know the US produces 19% of the world's trash

·         Did you know 59% of people say that their average looking

·         Did you know 53% of women don't leave home without makeup on

·         Did you know 44% of people have broken a bone