Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.
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In Korea, a child’s first birthday is the most important. In one part of the celebration, several items are placed on a table. The one that the baby picks up first is said to predict their future.
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People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.
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According to CNN national security correspondent David Ensore, as of 2002 bin Laden had married four women and fathered roughly 25 or 26 children.
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Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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