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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During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.
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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
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The offspring of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but genetically siblings.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. That is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
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There are actually seven different types of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Mirror-Image, Polar Body (Half Identical), Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, and Superfetation.
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