A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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More books are written, published and sold per person per year in Iceland than anywhere else on the planet. One in ten Icelanders will become a published author in their lifetime.
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The “cheerleader effect”, the theory that girls look more attractive in groups, is scientifically proven.
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Studies suggest that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more "working memory" and "sharper brains".
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There's an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich people'.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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