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- Seventy percent of house dust is made up of dead skin flakes.
- Seventy-three percent of Americans are willing to wear clothes until the clothes wear out. The poll conducted by Louis Harris and Associates also revealed: 92 percent are willing to eliminate annual model changes in automobiles; 57 percent are willing to see a national policy that would make it cheaper to live in multiple-unit apartments than in single-family homes; 91 percent are willing to eat more vegetables and less meat for protein.
- Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 have been injured.
- Since the Lego Group began manufacturing blocks in 1949, more than 189 billion pieces in 2000 different shapes have been produced. This is enough for about 30 Lego pieces for every living person on Earth.
- Sixty percent of big-firm executives said the cover letter is as important or more important than the résumé itself when you're looking for a new job.
- Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in the United States is that of Sanitation Worker. Firemen and Policeman are a close second and third, followed by Leather Tanners in fourth.
- Statistically, traveling by air is the safest means of transportation. Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport handles more than 73 million passengers a year, making it the busiest airport in the world.
- The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
- 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year.
- According to the US Government people have tried nearly 28,000 different ways to lose weight.
- Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time.
- "Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a $230,000 research project proposed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to study the various ways children fall off bicycles.
- 5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992.
- 8% of Americans twiddle their thumbs.
- 75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.
- The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.
- 56% of the video game market is adults.
- 55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.
- The average US worker toils for two hours and 47 minutes of each working day just to pay income tax.
- The average American pays more in taxes than for food, clothing and shelter put together.
- Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
- Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
- Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
- There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
- In 1984, 13,126 people were arrested in Federal drug cases.
- In 1790, the U.S. government conducted its first head count. The total population was just under four million (3,929,625).
- As of 1983, an average of Three billion Christmas cards were sent annually in the United States.
- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
- Conception occurs in December more than any other month.
- The most popular name given to boat-owners’ boats is "Obsession".
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