The average American consumes 9 pounds of food additives every year.
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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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Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.
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Forty percent of Americans have never visited a dentist.
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Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
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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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The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
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In 2002, Kenyan Maasai tribespeople donated 14 cows to the US to help with the aftermath of 9/11.
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