The average American looks at their phone 46 times each day.
(Time, 12/21/15)
In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
(Vanity Fair, 12/15)
One percent of babies worldwide are born with autism.
(Time, 12/28/15)
95% of supercenterians - people who live longer than 110 years -- are women.
(Prevention, 11/15)
Having an episode of intense anger is associated with an 8.5 times greater likelihood of having a heart attack in the next two hours.
(Time, 12/28/15)
The cost of cremation in the U.S. averages between $700 and $1,200; an in-ground burial costs around $7,000.
(The New Yorker, 11/30/15)
Japan has “corpse hotels” which allow families with apartments too tiny for a home funeral to participate in the ritual preparation of a body.
(The New Yorker, 11/30/15)
The first thing Larry King reads every morning is the obits.
(NYT Magazine 08/30/15)
Leonard Nimoy's last Tweet before he died was LLAP (Live long and prosper.)
(Time, 12/21/15)
Roz Warren wrote and published a really funny 'news aggregation' piece.
(Fictionaut 12/23/15)
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Polar bears covers their noses when hunting, because it's the only part of their body that isn't white.
A found poem
I was getting intensely angry as I read these--until I got to the fifth one down. I feel much better now. *