Football and Rugby
0.0 00 Percentage change since 2009 in the number of Americans who play football: -17 Who play rugby: +77
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Americans say work is hard to shake even while vacationing
0.0 00 61% – Percentage of employed vacationers who plan to work during their time off doing tasks such as… 38% – Emailing 32% – Accessing work documents on computer 30% – Calling 24% – Texting 20% – Fielding requests by boss, client or co-worker to do work
Read moreTrying anything to find water
0.0 00 A growing numbers of drought-afflicted California farmers began hiring dowsers to locate underground water. “Scientists don’t believe in it,” said vintner Marc Mondavi, “but I do and most of the farmers in the [Napa] Valley do.”
Read moreThe two deadliest drugs in America are both legal
0.0 00 The two deadliest drugs in America are both legal. Tobacco kills more than 500,000 Americans a year. Alcohol is linked to 88,000 deaths a year (including those caused by drunk driving and violent behavior) and more than 4.6 million emergency room visits.
Read moreWinston Churchill Quote – Stabbing You In The Back
0.0 00 “If you don’t look facts in the face, they have a way of stabbing you in the back.” – Winston Churchill
Read moreDeaths In Jail
0.0 00 About a dozen inmates die behind bars each day, or about 4,400 jail and prison inmates each year. In jails, suicide is the leading cause of death.
Read moreMelanoma
0.0 00 The rate of U.S. diagnoses for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has doubled in the past 30 years, from 11.2 cases per 100,000 people in 1982 to 22.7 cases per 100,000 in 2011, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released June 2. As a result, the agency expects the cost of melanoma […]
Read moreDrinking in Modern America
0.0 00 Americans drink far less today than our predecessors did. In 1830, the average American drank the equivalent of 7.1 gallons of pure alcohol per year. In 2013, by comparison, the average American drank the equivalent of 2.34 gallons of pure alcohol.
Read moreMirror, Mirror
0.0 00 A British survey found that the average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, compared with 16 times for women. Men like to “admire” their appearance, researchers found, while women simply make sure “they look OK.”
Read moreThe Man Who Removed His Own Appendix
5.0 01 Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov was a Soviet general practitioner who took part in the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1960–1961. He was the only doctor stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station and, while there, developed appendicitis, which meant he had to perform an appendectomy on himself, a famous case of self-surgery. Leonid Rogozov was born in Dauriya Station, Chita Oblast, […]
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