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 number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
10
Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.
40
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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