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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Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
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The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.
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2% of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits.
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water!
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On average, a person will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime.
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Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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