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ARE YOU BORED? PLAY A BOARD GAME!

In 2009, 17.3% of adults played a board game of some type.

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LOST FINALE ODDS

In the pilot episode, Oceanic Flight 815 crashes on a mysterious island. The odds an airplane passenger will be involved in a plane crash in a year are 1 in 10,790,000.

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HEAD COACH? DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT

A head coach who currently has a job in one of the US’s four major professional sports can expect to keep it for only 3.3 seasons.

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THE FASTEST TEAM IN BASEBALL: FINISH WHAT YOU START

As every team in baseball cracks the 40-game plateau this week, it's a good time to take a look at the fastest starters in Major League history.

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I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FACEBOOK FRIENDS

Is the popularity of social networking making it more difficult for us to connect with people in the real world?

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OPEN MINDS, CLOSED LIBRARIES

Given the sorry state of library budgets across the US, you'd think no one went to the library any more. But the odds an adult has a library card are 1 in 1.47 (68%).

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SLEEP AND WORK: AN UNLIKELY COMBINATION

According to the same survey by the National Sleep Foundation, the odds are 1 in 10 an employee has taken a nap at work.

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BACK HAIR

The odds a male does not groom his back hair are 1 in 1.33. That's 75% of men letting their back hair—if they've got it—become a tangled thicket of matted, curly, sweaty goodness.

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BADASS BABY BOOMERS

Street crime is the province of young men, isn’t it? The FBI’s actual crime figures tell a surprisingly different story. Violent crime among young people has dropped. Instead, it’s people in their middle years who are getting more hotheaded—especially middle-aged women.

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BIRD WATCHING

Though you might not think of Delaware as a wildlife watching Mecca, every spring bird watchers flock to Delaware Bay to see one of nature’s most interesting intersections: a meeting between sundry migrating shorebirds and a host of horny horseshoe crabs.

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