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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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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The name "Wendy" was made up for the book Peter Pan!
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Yu Youzhen, a Chinese millionaire, works as a street sweeper for the sanitation department to set an example for her children.
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According to the American Society for Microbiology, 90% of women and 75% of men wash their hands after using a public restroom.
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The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.
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More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
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