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This is the most profitable food sold in the U.S.

Pet food! It's a $15 Billion a year industry and your pet's food is largely waste product, unfit for human consumption.
Source: www.thehollywooddog.com

44% of women wear this to bed at night.

A full face of make-up.

The average person has six of these in their wardrobe.

Articles of clothing with the price tag still attached!

About 1000 people are injured each year using technology. What do you think they’re doing that’s landing them in the hospital for emergency care?

Walking and texting at the same time. One of the most recent studies says that texting while driving produces the same results as driving drunk.

The average one of these in the Bay Area ranges in price from $15,000 to just over $25,000. What is it?

A wedding in Tampa Bay!
Source: www.costofwedding.com

Surprising news; on an annual basis, women buy far more of these than men. What are they?

Flowers.
Source: MSN.com

It's no small secret in the industry that women usually dominate flower-buying. They tend to be the buyers of the bouquet for Mom on Mother's Day and the poinsettias on Christmas. But on Valentine's Day, almost 60% of the adults purchasing flowers as gifts are men, according to the NRF. That's what drove Teleflora to advertise during the Super Bowl this year -- to reach as many male eyeballs as possible.

This year, Valentine's Day fell on a Sunday, and that's a horrible thing for the industry. Consumers want flowers delivered to the office so the lucky recipient can show them off to colleagues. Having a bouquet sit on your kitchen table might be nice, but it's not as big a draw. "Florists will tell you it can be a 10-20% hit when it falls on a Sunday."

67% of workers say this is when they feel happiest.

When the boss is away!

1/3 of all Americans don't believe in this even though scientists have told us it’s a fact.

Global warming.
Source: Askmen.com

Despite the fact that local news outlets were reporting a 16% decrease in crime in the last year, there were those that still had sticky fingers. What do you think was shoplifted more than anything else?

Meat (just think of all its many uses. And it fits so nicely down your pants). Meat took over for cough syrup now that you have ask for the medication behind the counter to get your home cooked meth ingredients elsewhere.

Shoplifting and employee theft accounted for over $42 Billion in losses to retailers and that loss is passed on to you, the consumer who pays for their items. Each family pays an extra $423 a year to cover the losses. Ouch. Have you ever known someone to steal meat?
Source: CNN Money

80% of men know this off the top of their head if you ask them. The other 20% have no idea.

When Valentine’s Day is! For the record, it’s February 14th every year.
Source: YourTango.com poll

Guess what company has the #1 customer satisfaction ranking on the Web?

NetFlix!
Source: TIME Magazine, August 2009

Half of all of these incidents take place around Florida. What is it?

Shark attacks. Fatal attacks are rare but a 38-year-old was just killed this week by a bunch of Great White Sharks while he kite-boarded off of Stuart Beach in South Florida. On average there are about 65 attacks each year worldwide. Surfers accounted for 57% of shark attack victims; swimmers and waders, 36% and divers the rest, according to the Shark Attack File.
Source: CNN

Scientists are studying the link between people who do a lot of this and depression. It turns out the more you do it, the more depressed you’re likely to be.

Surf the Internet.
Source: Yorkshire Evening Post

When you buy this you are paying a markup of 900%!

Movie Theater Popcorn. That bag that costs you $6 only costs about $0.60 to make.
Source: CNN.com
If you’re paying PER text message it’s even worse: 6,500% markup!

We talked about the ladies yesterday so we’ll try to figure out men today. Men, if you do this at least twice a week, you will live an average of 5 years longer than your counterparts. The same has not been proven for women though. What could you do to live longer?

Have sex!
Source: Oprah.com

This has been found to inhibit sexual desire in women. What is it?

Cherries.
Source: Women's Health Magazine.

People who do this when they walk into a store tend to spend more money. What are they doing?

Walk around the store counter-clockwise! No one knows why. Maybe because in North America we drive on the right side of the road so we treat our shopping carts like cars? Maybe because most of us are right-handed and you can more easily reach for impulse buys if they’re on your right?
Source: Psychology Today Magazine.

Just two in five Americans do this every day.

Read a newspaper – either online or in print!
Source: Harris Poll

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