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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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| The average lifespan has more than doubled since 1840 and is increasing by about 5 hours every day, currently. | |||||
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| A baby of 6 months can re-grow a lost fingertip, that body capacity is lost in later life. | |||||
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| There are 10 times more bacteria ( about 10 trillion ) on and inside a human body than its own cells, combined bacterial DNA being 100 times more voluminous than the human DNA. | |||||
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