Did you know that in the time of Jesus a person of 33 years old was a senior?

In the time of Jesus a person of 33 years old was a senior. Even just 100 years ago, the average life span of Westerners was 47 years - only 4% of people reached age 65. Today, more than 10% of Westerners are 65 or older. (One in 3,300 Westerners are 100 or older.) That puts huge pressure on pension schemes. 50 years ago every pension beneficiary was supported by about 40 workers. Now, when the Baby Boomers - those born between 1946 and 1964 - retire, there are only 3 workers per beneficiary.

The term Baby Boomers is from the time after World War II when there was a sudden increase in births. 77 million American babies were born until the birthrate started to decline only in 1964. These were the happy hippies that used to send people to the moon.

80% of all communication is self-talk

English, the second most spoken language in the world (Mandarin is the most spoken), has more words in it than any other language. But English speakers generally use only about 1% of the language. About 1/3 of the more than one million English words are technical terms.

Men and women are equally talkative, speaking about 16,000 words a day audibly. Very talkative people speak about 50,000 words per day. Thus said, about 80% of all talk communication is self-talk, talking to one self.

English is the top Internet language but the fastest-growing of the world's 2,700 languages is Nerdic.

The longest word in the world is a Latin-based scientific word describing a process in the human cell. It is 207,000 letters long - enough letters to fill 80 typed sheets of letter-size (or A4-size) paper.

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