Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76
Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
165
According to a study, women ages 22 to 30 with no children and no spouse earned a higher median income than comparable men in 39 of the 50 largest U.S. cities in 2008.
9
Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
7
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
973
Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people fake it to look committed to their job.
57
On average women can hear better than men.
170
‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
8