DID YOU KNOW?

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  • Breathing through your nose boosts your memory by improving the transfer of information from the senses to the brain's storage network.
  • One in four drivers runs a red light at least once a week.
  • The average teenage girl slams a door about 150 times a year.
  • 12% of us don't use prescriptions even after we've paid for them.
  • According to research, people who wrote to-do lists fall asleep 9 minutes faster than those who wrote about completed tasks.
  • 62% of women wouldn't date a guy who had a ponytail.
  • Disney World buys fireworks than any other company in North America.
  • The number one rule in most people's houses is no shoes on the furniture.
  • According to a new report, men consume 82% of this junk food? Potato chips.
  • When taking both genders into account, the average adult is around 5 feet, 1.8 inches. People in Bolivia don't tend to be much taller, with an average adult height of 5 feet, 2.4 inches. The tallest people among us live in the Netherlands, where the average adult height is 6 feet.

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