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    Fast Facts: Sept. 17

    Seventy-two percent of Americans don’t know the people who live next door to them.

    Eleven percent of Americans have thrown out a dish just because they don’t want to wash it.

    Researchers say one in four people admits to snooping in a host’s medicine cabinet.

    Every 45 seconds, a house catches fire in the United States.

    More than 50 percent of Americans get out of bed before 7 a.m.

    Seventy-four percent of Americans say they make their bed every day. Five percent say they never do.

    Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of where they grew up.

    Do you alphabetize your spice rack? Only one in 12 Americans does.

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average American marriage lasts 9.4 years.

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