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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Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
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90% of people sit at their computer desk slouching, supporting their head with their left hand.
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water!
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Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
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