In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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Two in five people in the world marry their first love.
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The Japanese, on average, are the shortest people.
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