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| January 27, 2007
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Your body has 10 times more bacteria cells than human cells!
According to Princeton geneticist Bonnie Bassler, there are 10^10 bacterial cells in your gut. You only have 10^9 human cells making up your whole body. So there are 10 times more bacterial cells in you, or on you, than human cells. By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.
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| January 16, 2007
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More American women are living without a husband than with one.
In 2005, 51 percent of women said they were living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000. In addition, married couples are also a minority in the US, according to an old fact
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| January 9, 2007
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For the first time since 1996, TV sales in 2006 outpaced PC sales, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
TV revenues generated $20 billion in sales, whereas PC revenue generated $19 billion in 2006. The main reason for this shift is the emergence of HDTV.
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| January 2, 2007
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In June 2006, Warren Buffett donated $37 billion to charity.
According to VH1, this is enough money to buy every single house in Deleware!
Buffett still lives in the same house he bought in his home town of Omaha, Nebraska, in 1957.
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| Source: VH1 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous via Jason Langberg
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