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Estimated number of the Internet users in 2009 1,7 billion, growth of 380% since the year 2000. |
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A quarter of America's total income (23.5% in 2007) is earned by the top 1% |
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Over 40 000 people aged 100 years and over live in Japan today, fact largely attibuted to the seafood based diet. |
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Over half of global CO2 emissions comes from buildings - building operations 40% + building materials 12%, passenger cars make 9%, transport 15%, industry 24% - building one house is a CO2 equivalent of driving around the world 6 times. |
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US has more suicides than homicides (2004) |
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In 1995 illegal drugs represented 8% of world trade ($400 billion), roughly the same as gas and oil |
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Humans, livestock and pets now make up 98% of the total vertebrates mass on land. |
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Greece has the highest smoking rate in the world, over eight cigarettes per person each day, according to ERC, a market-research company, 17 European countries feature in the top 20 of 123 countries surveyed, Russia, Spain, Japan and South Korea are all top smokers. |
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Texting is four times more expensive than receiving scientific data from space (based on Hubble telescope figures). |
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Working models and simulations of (parts of) the human brain are performing well, we will succeed in reverse engineering brain by 2020. |
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