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You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
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The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
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If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
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One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
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It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
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Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.
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A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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The average IQ is 100, while 140 is the beginning of genius IQ.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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62% of us pop our zits.
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