Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.
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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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If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate!)
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The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.
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Yu Youzhen, a Chinese millionaire, works as a street sweeper for the sanitation department to set an example for her children.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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