During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.
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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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Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.
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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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Approximately 365 million people in the world have computers while half of the world's 6.5 billion population has never seen or used a telephone.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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Thrity-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
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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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