Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76
As many as one third Americans flush the toilet while they are still on it.
157
Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
36
City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.
48
Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women.
61
Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.
110
Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
131
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.”
13