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601/ About 24 percent of alcoholics
die in accidents, falls, fires, and suicides.
602/ A survey revealed that
87 percent of snowmobilers in Maine are males. Snowmobiling
added $226 million to the state's economy in 1996.
603/ About 60 percent of all
American babies are named after close relatives.
604/ According to a 1995 poll,
1 out of every 10 people admitted that they will buy an outfit
intending to wear it once and return it.
605/ According to a poll,
58 percent of those responding admitted that they had falsely
called in sick to get a day off from work.
606/ 39 percent of people
interviewed for a poll admitted that they snoop in their host's
medicine cabinets.
607/ 75 percent of people
who play the car radio while driving also sing along with
it.
608/ Life expectancy in America
has grown from 46.6 years for males and 48.7 years for females
in 1900. To 72.7 years for males and 76.1 years for females.
609/ In a recent 5 year period,
24 residents of Tokyo died while bowing to other people.
610/ In a survey conducted
by a women's magazine; 70 percent of female respondents said
they would rather have choclate than sex.
611/ According to hospital
figures, dogs bite an average of 1 million Americans a year.
612/ According to one source,
about 66 percent of magazines found thrown along US roadsides
are pornographic.
613/ Americans buy about 5
million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have
a picture of Mickey Mouse on them in the course of a day.
614/ According to suicide
statistics, Monday is the favoured day for self destruction.
615/ In England, a stone is
equal to 14 pounds, a kilogram to 2.2 pounds.
616/ In Wales, there are more
sheep than people. (In 1996, the human population for Wales
was 2,921,000; with approximately 5,000,000 sheep)
617/ Ireland boasts the highest
per capita consumption of cereal in the world - 15 pounds
per person annually.
618/ It can cost up to $20
million to launch a new fragrance. Saudi Arabia reportedly
has the highest per capita fragrance use in the world at more
than a quart a year for every man, woman and child.
619/ The Coast Guard Academy
in July of 1976 was the first U.S service academy to admit
women.
620/ Sweden has the most phones
per capita.
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