50 totally crazy statistics that you will not believe are real

Data does not lie.


Unless you are amathematical, looking at numbers tends to be confusing - or downright boring. But sometimes they can surprise you. For example, do you know how many bottles of 2 liters the average person could fill with the amount of saliva they produce in a month? (Spoiler alert: a lot.) Or can you guess how manyAmericans Can shake with confidence the five freedoms protected by the first amendment? (Tip: Not much.)

We fought through studies, reports and tons of data to find amazing and actual 100% statistics that will renew your interest in numbers. So, read it for fascinating facts and figures that are guaranteed to turn your head!

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The average drunk driver leads under the influence more than 80 times before being stopped the first time.

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This does not seem enough people have had the message that cars and alcohol should never be mixed. On average, people will lead into drunkenness more than 80 times before their first arrest. It dependsMothers against drunken driving (MADD), which cited the arrest data of theFBI and the incidence data of theDisease and Prevention Control Centers (CDC).

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Less than 2% of NCAA students occur at the professional level.

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We all recognize that it takes a superior amount of talents, determination and sometimes the chance to bring in the Pantheon of professional athletics. But theNCAA Revealed how stiff competition: less than 2% of the NCAA Go Pro athletes. NCAA also believes that the probability of even progressing high school sports at the NCAA level is about 6%. In other words, the chances of the average American American baller climbing ranks at the MLB are very, very thin.

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One-third of adults still sleep with a comfort object.

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No need to trace this stuffed bear of your infant years in your wardrobe the next time you have an adult night sleeper - Chances are good that it also has a comfort object. A study conducted bySleepopolis and OnePoll Reported that 34% of adults still sleep with a plush animal, coverage or other sentimental object, according to a survey of 2,000 adults.

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The average American generates nearly 4.5 pounds of waste every day.

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It's usually a pretty intellective task from getting out the trash - but perhaps we should start thinking about it a little more. According to statistics from theAmerican Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)In 2015 (the last year with available data), each American generates approximately 4.48 pounds of waste every day, totaling 1,642.5 pounds a year.

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In the last century, "Michael" was the name of the most popular male baby 44 times.

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TheSocial Security Administration Reports the best baby names per state, year and decade. And if you have your heart, give your son a unique monikeer, you should probably avoid "Michael", the best male baby name 44 times in the last 100 years. The same goes for the name "Mary", which was the most popular female name 37 times in the last century.

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The overall rate to wash your hands after using the toilet is less than 20%.

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TheCDC Reports only around the world, only 19% of people wash their hands after using the toilet. Also consider that theCDC reports that 2.5 billion people aged 2.5 billion (about 35% of the global population) do not have access to "sanitation improvement" or a way to properly protect people from contact with their excretions.

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Americans have read for a personal interest for 10 minutes or less a day.

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The most recent survey of US time use, led byOffice of Labor Statistics, noted that many Americans barely read everything they do not have to do absolutely. In a set, individuals aged 15 to 54 were read for 10 minutes or less a day. People aged 20 to 34 had the lowest rates, on average only 0.11 hours (or about 7 minutes) of quiet reading a day. On the opposite end of the spectrum, people aged 75 and overTouring pagesfor an average of 51 minutes a day. And speaking of reading ...

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More than 36 million American adults can not read above a third level.

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According toProletarity, an organization that publishesAdult literacy education: International newspaper for literacy, language and numeracy In collaboration with Rutgers University, more than 36 million US adults can not read, write or make basic mathematics over a third level.

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The average American eats nearly 13 pounds of ice cream a year.

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In 2017, the average American will eat about 12.7 pounds of ice every year. As excessive that this could ring, the statistics are down 10 years before, when the Americans consumed 14.8 pounds of ice cream per person in 2007, depending on the dairy data of theUnited States Economic Research Service of Agriculture.

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One in seven Americans receives food from a food bank.

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You should never think twice twice at your local canned food car, seeing one of the Americans out of seven (or 46.5 million) received food bank's food in 2014. These figures include about 12 million children and 7 million seniors, by reportingNourish, a non-profit network of food banks across the country.

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And more than half a million inhabitants of America experience without homelessness one night.

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TheUS Department of Housing and Urban Development The newest annual homelessness assessment report indicating that 553,000 people knew homeless in the United States only one night in 2018. In addition, about one-third of these people were in places impregnated.

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We collectively receive about 2.4 billion "robocalls" per month.

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You are not the only one to do what looks likea million calls Random numbers day after day. TheFederal Communications Commission (FCC) estimated that about 60% of all complaints he receives "unwanted calls". According to the FCC, the Americans receive a total of about 2.4 billion Robocalls a month, which the organization has attributed to private analyzes from 2016.

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Less than a quarter of American adults meet the US directives for physical activity.

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According to a report of June 2019 of theCDCIn 2017, only 24.3% of US adults responded to the physical activity guidelines set by theDepartment of Health and Human Services. The guidelines stipulate that adults need at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic activity a week, associated with at least 2 days of muscle building activities each week.

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About 90% of people suffer from one cardiac arrest off hospital die.

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Statistics of theAmerican Heart Association Report that about 90% ofCardiac arrests This happens outside the hospital, there are more than 350,000 cardiac arrests off hospitals each year. On the plus side, nearly 45% of the victims of cardiac arrest excluding hospitalization survived when a spectator made a CPR.

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We get an average of 0.5 personal mail per household weekly.

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Provides, the art of letter writing can really be dead. From the 2017 financial year (the most recent exercise with the available data), personal correspondence, whatUS postal service Described as "household household household", including personal letters, greeting cards, invitations and ads, which represents only 0.5 mail, per household, posted by USPS every week.

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Farmers and breeders represent less than 2% of the American population.

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Trying to find a farmer in America could be as difficult as finding a needle in a hay. A little less than 2% of the Americans are among the tastes of the old Macdonald, according to the estimates by theAmerican Farm Federation.

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Nearly half of American adults will undergo mental illness during their lives.

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From February 2019, theNational Council for Behavioral Health estimated that 46.4% of adults in the United States will live amental illnessin their life. Unfortunately, the Organization also felt that, over the past year, only 41% of these have actually received a form of professional health care.

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Nearly a quarter of rural Americans say that high-speed Internet access is a "major problem" in their community.

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Living in the era of the LTE, Wi-Fi coffee and seemingly ubiquitous Internet access, it's easy to forget that the internet connection is not also effortless for everyone we might think . According to the 2018 data of thePEW Research Center, 58% of rural Americans consider their broadband Internet access (or absence) as a problem, although "minor". But 24% of displaying broadband Internet access as "major problem" for their community.

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In an average day, only 19% of American men do housework - compared to 49% of US women.

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We could get closer together and closer to arriving at a place wherehouseworkis divided equitably between women and men - but the last US survey on the use of time by the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms that we are not yet there. According to their conclusions, only 19% of American men do housework every day on average, compared to 49% of US women.

And the days, the Americans have done housework, women have spent an average of 2.6 hours on these activities, while men have spent 2.1 hours.

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The average person could fill up to 23 bottles of 2 liters with the amount of saliva they produce in a month.

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According to a 2009 study published in theJournal of Medicine and Life, the daily production of normal man's saliva varies from 0.5 to 1.5 liter. It works with your salivary glands producing up to 46.5 liters of slobber per month!

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The United States collected more than 1,100 gold medals in the history of the Olympic Games.

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Since the first Olympic Games in 1896, the American team brought to the house for exactly 1,131 times, according to the accounts on the official.Olympic Games to place. The U.S.A. team has completed the largest number of gold medals in one game on our own home, winning a 93 jaw gold medals at the 1984 summer games in Los Angeles.

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There are more than 6,000 recorded dogs to come to work with Amazon employees at Seattle's office.

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The canines are king toAmazon. The company said inA blog post in January 2019 About 500 dogs wander in the premises of its north American headquarters to a given day and about 6,000 dogs in total are registered to work with their owners.

If thesePrime bakes Get too burned on all their "work", they can prevent a friendly water fountain in dogs or attend the building Doggie deck, which has a false fire.

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America drivers cover a combination of $ 2.6 billion billions of dollars a year.

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According toAAA Foundation for Road Safety Survey of American Conduct for the years 2014 to 2017, the average American goes to 51 minutes driving every day. All these miles really start to add up, with drivers of the nation that gather to drive 2.6 billion kilometers a year.

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The cinema attendance is more than doubled the presence of all US theme parks and the main combined American sports games.

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To be fair, it's usually a little easier to score tickets in a movie than a Yankees game. Nevertheless, the difference in assistance between the two is quite amazing. In 2018, theAnimated Association of Animated Pictures (MPAA) Reported that the presence for cinemas in 2018 amounted to 1.3 billion. The presence on watch parks has become 421 million, while the total of all major US sports (baseball, basketball, hockey and football) increased to 131 million.

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Up to 95% of the millennia "do not save adequately" for retirement.

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Millennia should probably consider implementing a hiatus of expenses on the toast avocado and fantasycafes-A less, if theNational Institute of Retirement Securityhas something to say about it. According to the institute, only 4.8% of the millennials of work (which researchers are defined as people born between 1981 and 1991) save "adequately" for retirement. Even more worrying, 66% of the millennials of work have absolutely zero saved for their retirement.

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Two of the five in five Americans can not name a single freedom protected by the first amendment.

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How much do you remember yourHigh school civic to classify? Not much, apparently!

In his state of the first publication of the first amendment of 2018, theInstitute of Freedom of the Forum found that 40% of respondents could not remember any of the freedoms protected by the first amendment. Of the 1,009 adults surveyed, only 3% could appoint four of the five freedoms and one person could name the five corrections correctly. (They are: freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and the right of petition of the government.)

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Five countries account for 60% of the world soldiers.

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If you have guessed that the United States is the largest depender when it comes to bombing money for its army, you are absolutely correct. TheStockholm International Peace Search Institute Reported that the United States spent $ 649 billion on military spending in 2018, China was $ 250 billion. The other three countries constitute a 60% collective of global military spending has been Saudi Arabia ($ 67.6 billion), India ($ 66.5 billion) and France ($ 63.8 billion dollars) )

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Less than 10% of the US population made it possible to watch the royal marriage in 2018.

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According toNielsen, about 29.2 United States, thousands of viewers were among the audience of television forRoyal Marriage ofPrince Harry of Wales andMeghan murder. But taking into account the estimates of the population of May 19, 2018, using theCensus office Population clock, which only works at a little less than 10% of the American population at the time.

Nevertheless, there were nearly 30 million American viewers who conscientiously rubbed the sleep of their eyes to look at the American actress married his prince charming in real time. (The cover started at 4:00 am.)Awarm.

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Drake was broadcast by more than 8 billion times in 2018 only.

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In addition to beingSpotifyThe most streamed artist for 2015, 2016 and 2018,DrakeWe became the platform the streaming platform of all time at all times, with 8.2 billion streams in 2018. (Ed Sheeran took the coveted title of most artists in Streamed for 2017.)

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Americans eat 4.2 billion lawyers each year.

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According to a report in theWashington Post, quoting figures from the lawyer card of Hass (it is the type of lawyer, you are most likely to eat in the United States), the Americans consumed a jaw of a height of 4.25 billion Lawyers last year. No amazing person under 35 years oldto buy a house!

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More than 15 million Americans still lack the mobile broadband at the median speed.

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Has never been frustrated when your call fails unexpectedly? Imagine being one of about 14 million rural Americans and 1.2 million Americans living on tribal lands that still lack LTE mobile Broadband at a median speed, according to a 2018 report of theFCC. (For Super Tech-Savvy, the FCC has set the current MEDIAN MODEIAN wireless speed standard to be 10 Mbps Mbps downloads / 3 uploads.)

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A high school graduate will have taken about 100 mandatory standardized tests since pre-kindergarten.

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TheCouncil of schools of the big city has published a report in 2015 revealing that the graduate of the average high school in a US "public school public school" has taken about 112 mandatory standardized tests from pre-k-and which does not even represent the number of times a student Take practice tests to prepare for the real deal. While it said, the estimated report that standardized tests consume between 20 and 25 hours each school year.

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Travel sharing services have contributed to an increase in the death of traffic by nearly 3%.

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You would think that the convenience of ordering your own personal ride through just some faucets on an application would result in traffic safety mortality rates. But, according to a 2018 study conducted at theUniversity of Chicago, driving sharing services likeUber And LYFT has actually contributed to an increase in traffic deaths by 2% or 3% since 2011 - totaling about 1,100 death per year. The report attributes a portion of the increase in the number of traffic deaths to congestion caused by the practice of "ratsheading" or driver drivers maneuvering in the streets in search of their passengers.

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There are nearly 12,000 annual injuries related to televisions falling in the United States.

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This new 4K flat screen could be more dangerous than you think. TheUS Consumer Products Safety Board (CPC) Estimates that the fall of TVs cause 11,800 US injuries each year - and these are just injuries that really require treatment of an emergency service. In fact, these injuries are so widespread that CPSC has a complete section of its website devoted to "TIP-OUT" reports ofFurniture and decor.

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Only 3% of adults over 65 use Snapchat.

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A 2019 survey by thePEW Research Center found that 24% of American men and 24% of US women report from the infamous social media platform for her missing photos (and, uh, all the nefason that comes with that). In addition, the investigation revealed that 3% of adults aged 65 and over say they usedSnapchat! Frankly, it's pretty impressive.

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The number of online video service subscriptions exceeded cable subscriptions, with an impressive 57 million.

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IncludingNetflix,HullarAnd Amazon Prime makes their mark. Global subscriptions to online video services have reached an unprecedented height of $ 613.3 million in 2018, pulling in the number of cable subscriptions (556 million) by land sliding-57 million lines-based of 2018 of the MPAA.

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Disney Theme Parks account for more than half of the total participation of the major thematic park in the United States.

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There is a powerful Pixie enough toDisneyTheme parks, bringing tons of visitors the previous year. According toThematic entertainment association Report on the attendance of global attractions, the crowd continues to move to see magic for itself - giving Disney the satisfaction of 55% of participation in the 20 best fun parks in North America. (Disney has six parks in the top 20: Magic Kingdom, Disneyland, Animal Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure.)

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More than half a billion Instagram accounts are active every day.

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According toInstagram Internal data from September 2017, the image sharing platform houses an incredible active accounts of 500 million +. Even if these accounts do not post daily, they definitely parade. The platform even believes that there are more than 1 billion accounts having an activity each month.

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Each American drinks an average of 26.5 gallons of beer and cider a year.

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The company certainly jumps for the beer industry. The average American (21 years and over, of course) drunk an impressive cold value of 26.5 gallons in 2018, as indicated by theNational Beer Wholesaler Association.

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An American US job is supported by passenger expenses.

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According toAmerican Travel Association, travel expenses in 2018 supported $ 15.7 million (or on 10) US jobs. Maybe it will help you keep your temperament check the next time you are in a Tizzy on theairport Exorbitant bottled water price!

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Americans spend more than $ 72 billion on their pets each year.

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With the growing prevalence of high quality dog ​​spas and pets, it is not secret that Americans firmly believe in sompass our pets. TheAmerican Pet Products Associationconfirmed that the dollar value of all this tender love and care can actually add up, reporting that the Americans spent $ 72.56 billion in 2018 to ensure that Fido has all its heart desires (and medically requires).

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Only 9% of Americans say that baseball is their favorite sport to watch.

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The baseball could be "the hobby of America", but, according to the data of a 2018Swallow Survey, baseball was only 9% of the Americans' favorite sport to watch. In the end, football continued its series of victories (which it has maintained since 1972) or 37% of the favorite sports of Americans to monitor.

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An American teacher in five smoking electronic cigarettes.

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Unfortunately, as for all things electronic, it seems that children are much more likely to jump on the e-cigarette cigarette train than their parents. TheCDC Reported that, in 2017, only 2.8% of US adults were users of electronic cigarettes, while in 2018, 20.8% of high school students and 4.9% of college students smoked electronic cigarettes.

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The largest horn chain on a direction is wider than the statue of the face of freedom.

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Even the Lady Liberty itself (whose "thickness of the head of the ear to the other"measures Exactly 10 feet) could think twice before rising against Poncho Via, a 7-year-old Texas Longhorn, from a farm in Alabama. The handlebar has horns that extend 10 feet and 7.4 inches-making its horn twice the width of a grand piano concert piano, according toGUINNESS WORLD RECORDS.

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More than one billion people around the world have some kind of vision deficiency.

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TheWorld Health Organization estimates that about 1.3 billion people around the world have a disability of the vision. Perhaps this statistic is not so surprising, once you start counting the number of people, you know who wear glasses or contacts. It is not surprising that startups like Warby Parker see such a wild success!

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Americans take 1.8 billion trips for leisure each year.

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Americans canwork hardBut we believe that to play very much too, it's obvious that we took 1.8 billion trips for leisure in 2018, according to the American Travel Association. In order to respond to the bill of a "leisure trip", the traveler needed to spend the night away from home (in paying accommodation ") or take a trip to at least 50 miles from the house.

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Only 2% of shoes sold in the United States are actually manufactured in America.

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Data analysis carried out by theAmerican Apparel & Footwear Association found that 97% of clothing and 98% of the shoes sold in the United States are imported from 2017.

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The average American spends a little less than $ 1,000 from clothes each year.

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Depending on the research by the American Apparel & Footwear Association, the average American spends $ 971.87 on clothing a year. How many weeks of grocery store is for you?

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Website visits for the first 50 American daily newspapers last on average two and a half minutes.

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The good news (Yes, word game definitely intended) Was the average of two and a half minutes remained approximately 2016 to 2017, according to the data presented by thePEW Research Center. But to put this time in perspective, it means that Americans spend just a little longer on these news sites that the recommended time you are supposed to pass the teeth. Savage!

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The chances of an average person who dies contact with hornets, wasps or bees is one of 63,225.

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Now it does not mean that a single bit of one of these cups will not make a punch again. If it is a consolation, theNational Security Council Believes that the probability of dying of a sting (one in 63,225) is well below that of the death of heart disease and cancer. And for more trivia who will blow you, check these100 facts so crazy you will not believe they are really sad!

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