At the age of 11, Toni Collette showed her phenomenal acting skills when she faked appendicitis out of boredom and longing for attention; her act was so convincing that doctors had to remove her appendix, even though the test showed nothing wrong with it. Source: IMDB
In 2007, the world’s fourth-largest metropolis and Brazil’s most important city, São Paulo, became the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a radical, near-complete ban on outdoor advertising.
Source: Adbusters.org
An average person’s active vocabulary consists of 10,000 words, whereas the English language contains around 600,000 words. This means that the average English speaker only uses about 1.7% of the language. Source: Wikipedia
According to the A.C. Nielsen Company, the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube.