Factoids


According to ABC News, a US government report finds that 70% of all people who abuse illicit drugs still manage to work full time.


America spends around $40,000 per year on every family of four below the poverty line.


A cockroach can live without it's head for nine days before it starves to death.


Most of the approx. 40,000 snakebite fatalities each year occur when humans attempt to kill or capture a snake that has gotten too close for comfort.


Over 60 percent of the world's population lives within 1 mile of a beach.


90 percent of all skin cancers are the result of sun exposure. We get more than 80 percent of our exposure before age 21.



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