Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
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76% of Americans celebrate New Year's Eve in groups of less than 20.
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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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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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People who have a strong friendship possess the ability to communicate with one another through facial expressions.
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City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.
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As a rule, 66 percent of people keep their eyes closed while kissing. The rest take pleasure in watching the emotions run the gamut on the faces of their partners.
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