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Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
Although the Roman numeral for the number 4 has always been taught to have been "IV," according to historians, the ancient Romans probably used "IIII" most of the time. This is partially backed up by the fact that early grandfather clocks displayed IIII for the number 4 instead of IV. Early clockmakers apparently thought that the IIII balanced out the VIII (used for the number 8) on the clock face and that it just looked better.
About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
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