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  • Sixty-seven percent of dog owners buy holiday gifts for their pets.
  • Forty-five percent of cat owners buy a holiday gift for their pets.
  • Balding men going to hair clinics have an average age of twenty-four years and five months.
  • The two most common surgeries are biopsies and Caesarean sections.
  • The lining of your digestive system is shed every three days.
  • In Victorian times Goldilocks, of Three Bears fame, was known as Silver Hair. She later became Golden Hair and eventually Goldilocks.
  • Carolyn Keene and Franklin Dixon, the authors behind the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys book series, never existed. The stories were all penned by other writers under contract.
  • Only Ohio’s flag doesn’t have four sides to it. They fly a five-sided “”swallowtail”” design.
  • Women started removing hair from their legs in 400 BCE. They either plucked them with tweezers or singed them with a flame.
  • Around 75 million George Foreman grills have been sold worldwide since the appliances were first marketed in 1995.
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