Chanel Tapper, a student from California, USA, has the world's longest tongue, measuring 9.75 cm (3.8 inches), from tip to top lip!
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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