A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
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Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
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Studies suggest that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more "working memory" and "sharper brains".
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95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.
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It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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