Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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There are about 255 babies born worldwide every minute.
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The typical person spends about 600 hours having sex between the ages of 20 and 70.
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Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.
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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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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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Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.
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