Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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The average American consumes 9 pounds of food additives every year.
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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Karl Pillemer, a professor, performed a study on thousands of elderly people and what advice they had about life. On happiness, there was a consensus: “the elders viewed happiness as a choice, not the result of how life treats you.”
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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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The Japanese commonly put ketchup on their rice.
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More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
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