Facts in "Surveys" Category
#2958 - Surveys Fact  3
Half of all men start to lose their hair by the time they turn 30. Everybody loses dozens of hairs a day - the key thing is whether or not they grow back. More than 40 percent of men wind up with significant hair loss.
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#2959 - Surveys Fact  1
According to one U.S. study, about 25 percent of all adolescent and adult males never use deodorant.
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#2960 - Surveys Fact  1
Focus group information compiled by CalComp revealed that 50 percent of computer users do not like using a mouse.
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#2961 - Surveys Fact  -2
One in five American households move in a given year. The average American moves 11 times. But most of us - 61 percent - still live in the state we were born in. And big corporations report increasing resistance to transfers to new cities...with many people turning down promotions in order to stay put.
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#2962 - Surveys Fact  2
Before the Chinese take-over of Tibet in 1952, 25 percent of the males in the country were Buddhist monks.
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#2963 - Surveys Fact  1
By the end of the U.S. Civil War, 33 percent of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit. This was a devastating situation for a nation struggling to recover economically from such a destructive war. On July 5, 1865, the Secret Service was created as a part of the Department of the Treasury to help suppress counterfeit currency.
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#2964 - Surveys Fact  2
Nearly 87 percent of the 103 people polled in 1977 were unable to identify correctly an unlabeled copy of the Declaration of Independence.
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#2965 - Surveys Fact  5
According to a major hotel chain, approximately the same numbers of men and women are locked out of their rooms. 32 percent are less than fully dressed.
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#2966 - Surveys Fact  -1
The population divides approximately in half between AM and PM people. But early-birds have the edge - 56 percent routinely rise early while 44 percent stay up late. Medical studies, by the way, find that people tend to work more productively in the morning.
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#2967 - Surveys Fact  3
A recent Gallup survey showed that in the United States 8 percent of kissers kept their eyes open, but more than 20 percent confessed to an occasional peek. Forty-one percent said they experienced their first serious smooch when they were age thirteen, fourteen, or fifteen; 36 percent between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one. The most memorable kiss in a motion picture was in "Gone With The Wind" according to 25 percent of those polled.
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