The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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Americans spend over $272 million every day ordering products through mail order.

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Fleas can live for months without food. If a human were a flea, they would be able to jump 1000 feet high.

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Two people die every ten minutes in Car accidents.

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Something like 4% of what you spend on any given product goes to pay for the packaging.

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The United States has 5% of the world's population, yet consumes 25% of it's energy supply.

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Six percent of all American men are killed by either their wife or girlfriend - or wife who caught them with their girlfriend.

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Approximately 1 out of 25 people suffers from asthma

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The first traffic light was installed in England in 1868 in front of the Houses of Parliament.

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Every day in the United States, people steal $20,000 from coin-operated machines.

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The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year

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On any given day, Americans spend over $33 million buying lottery tickets.

On that same day, 99 American families fall below the poverty line.

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Somewhere near 33 new consumer products are introduced every day. 13 of them are toys.

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Someone constructs 12 new golf holes every day.

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Americans eat something like 24 million hotdogs every day.

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Ever been laying in bed, almost asleep and your leg jerks ? It's a condition called "hypnagogic myoclonus".