Surveys and Statistics

Bizarre Fact #181:
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About 10 percent of the workforce in Egypt is under 12 years of age. Although laws protecting children are on the books, they are not well enforced, partly because many poverty-stricken parents feel forced to send their children out to help support the family.

Bizarre Fact #182:
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Most humans can guess someone's sex with 95 percent accuracy just by smelling their breath.

Bizarre Fact #183:
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Half of all men start to lose their hair by the time they turn 30. Everybody loses dozens of hairs a day - the key thing is whether or not they grow back. More than 40 percent of men wind up with significant hair loss.

Bizarre Fact #184:
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According to one U.S. study, about 25 percent of all adolescent and adult males never use deodorant.

Bizarre Fact #185:
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Focus group information compiled by CalComp revealed that 50 percent of computer users do not like using a mouse.

Bizarre Fact #186:
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One in five American households move in a given year. The average American moves 11 times. But most of us - 61 percent - still live in the state we were born in. And big corporations report increasing resistance to transfers to new cities...with many people turning down promotions in order to stay put.

Bizarre Fact #187:
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Before the Chinese take-over of Tibet in 1952, 25 percent of the males in the country were Buddhist monks.

Bizarre Fact #188:
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By the end of the U.S. Civil War, 33 percent of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit. This was a devastating situation for a nation struggling to recover economically from such a destructive war. On July 5, 1865, the Secret Service was created as a part of the Department of the Treasury to help suppress counterfeit currency.

Bizarre Fact #189:
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Cold pizza is fairly popular. A survey found 15 percent actually PREFER pizza this way, suggesting that the number who love hot pizza but don't mind eating the leftovers cold the next day must be quite high indeed.

Bizarre Fact #190:
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It is estimated that 60 percent of home smoke detectors in use do not work because they don't have a battery in them or the battery in the detector no longer has any potency.