Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
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Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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By peeing in the shower, you can save 1,157 gallons of water a year.
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Only humans shed emotional tears.
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A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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