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59 percent of links shared on social media have never actually been clicked. Most people retweet news without reading it.

The most common personal finance question of Millennials

Real odds of becoming a high-paid corporate lawyer

Life With a Traumatic Brain Injury

Otters aren’t just freaking adorable, they lower carbon dioxide levels.

61% of U.S. Calories Are From Highly Processed Food

95% of doctors say they believe working while sick could cause harm, but 83% say they do it anyway.

Save $4000 a year by ditching your car -- even if it's paid off.

Mars is the only known planet inhabited solely by robots.

Late bloomer Anthony Bourdain was not successful until he was 44.

In 33 years of holding Microsoft stock, Steve Ballmer made $21 billion -- enough to buy the LA Clippers for $2 billion cash.

A bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia offers the highest return on investment of any school: 17.6% annually.

Dr. Dre and 50 Cent made most of their wealth from selling the stock of Beats and VitaminWater, respectively.

A group of bunnies is called a fluffle.

Moby Dick sold fewer than 3800 copies when it was first published, and ruined Melville's career.

More than half of new teachers quit their jobs within 4 years.

Decisions exhaust our willpower. We each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it gets progressively depleted by active choices.

Annie J. Cannon came up with the star classification system, and classified 500k stars, more than any other person.

The Most Important Fact Buried In Twitter's 70-Page Investor Slideshow: 3.7 billion projected 2017 smartphone users.

Viggo Mortenson wore a Habs shirt under his Aragorn costume during LOTR filming. It "gave me just a little more power with the sword."

A tiny Wyoming creek connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A bobcat is the size of a beagle. A puma is the size of a grown man.

Smiling is scientifically proven to improve your mood.

Airbnb is worth more than Wyndham and Hyatt.

All major league baseball umpires are required to wear black underwear in case they split their pants.

A bear's first post-hibernation poop can result in up to a foot-long scat filled with dirt and twigs.

Ashes from the cremated remains of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto, are on the way there.

More bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived on Earth.

There are 200 billion stars in the Milky Way.

Wombat Poop is Cubic

By the time an average child turns 8, they've had more sugar than the average person did in their entire lifetime just one century ago.

Report: 44% of Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent a Tweet

One season of “Game Of Thrones” requires 3,000 costumes.

If you have three friends at work, you're 96% more likely to be extremely satisfied with your life.

Chocolate-Loving Gut Microbes Turn Cocoa Into Heart-Healthy Molecules

Why do cats purr?

The Internet Archive has now stored more than 10 Petabytes.

90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years.

The average person has 3000 thoughts a day.

10% of Wall Street are psychopaths.

Your body language affects your emotion. ~Amy Cuddy

4.8 billion people have a mobile device and only 4.2 billion own a toothbrush.

The Struggle is where greatness comes from. ~Ben Horowitz

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~Carl Sagan

Yugen, n.: An awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and powerful for words.

The largest structure in the Universe is a Quasar Group 4 billion light-years wide.

Astronomers anticipate 100 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way.

Nothing stays the same. Life regularly changes things up on you. ~ Jill Bolte Taylor "Stroke of Insight" TED Talk

Nearly every star in our galaxy hosts at least one alien planet.

The Human Microbiome Project decodes our 100 trillion good bacteria.

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