Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
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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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Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.
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Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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Women rate men more attractive if other women are looking and smiling at him.
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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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There are actually seven different types of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Mirror-Image, Polar Body (Half Identical), Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, and Superfetation.
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On average, a person will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime.
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