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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.