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The "Did You Know" Thread will be used for random bits of trivia and facts that you probably don't need to know!

Did you know that Canada is the country with the longest coastline?
It's total coastline distance is 151,485 miles (243,791 km)

This makes the Canadian coastline, including all of it's islands more than SIX times as long as the distance around the Earth at the equator, which is 24,902 miles (40,076 km)

Canada has 52,455 offshore islands.

Did you know that the largest television owning country is not the USA or Asia?

It is in fact the country Qatar with 869 TVs per 1000 people.

The USA is in second with 854.

The world average is 270!

did you know that there are more donut shops per capita in canada than in any other country?

did you know that most cats are left-pawed?

did you know that your thumb is the same length as your nose?

Did you know that the record for longest surviving headless chicken is 18 months.

did you know that australian scaly crickets have sex up to 13 times an hour?

Did you know that the country with the highest "reported" car thefts is Switzerland with 982.60 (Rate per 100,000)

And that the USA isn't even one of the top 10 countries with the most car thefts, but Canada is with 521.20

did you know that male greater white-lined bats sing love songs to prospective females?

Did you know that China is the country with the most executions per year with a total of 1,067 annually. The second highest country is less than a tenth of China's, with a total of only 100 for the Domocratic Republic of Congo.

Did you know that all of the clocks in the movie PULP FICTION are always on the time 4:20?

Did you know there are more chickens in the world then there are people?

Did you know cats have 32 muscles in each ear?

Did you know that north american oysters do not make pearls of any value?

did you know that this thread wants to make me scream, due to all the repetition of 'did you know?'

afealicious wrote:did you know that australian scaly crickets have sex up to 13 times an hour?

did you know so do i

Did you know that it's illegal to drag a dead horse down Younge Street in Toronto on a Sunday?

kermit wrote:Did you know that it's illegal to drag a dead horse down Younge Street in Toronto on a Sunday?

I actually did know that, and now I'm trying to figure out why.

Yeah, mostly people in the GTA (ish) area know that, lol.

Then why did I know that? Huh?

Clearly you fail at "did you know"

It's a question! A question can have many responses so how do I fail?

I knew the horse thing, too, for some reason.

afealicious wrote:did you know that there are more donut shops per capita in canada than in any other country?

That's totally cos of Tim's.

you underestimate country style...

this thread makes me want to sing

did you ever know that you're my heerrroo?