The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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Children's sense of smell is better than adults'.
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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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Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
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Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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