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ATHLETE, BEING AN
Athletes suffer from an unusually high rate of benign orgasmic headaches, otherwise known as headaches after sex. But if you're an athlete, you've got other things to worry about: nobody who reads this book is going to sleep with you anyway. |
ATHLETE, BEING AROUND AN
Turns out jocks aren't as sexy as you thought. Male athletes are six times more likely than other men to commit sexual assaults, and ten times more likely to commit acts of domestic violence. |
ATHLETE, FEMALE, BEING A
Women who play sports such as basketball, soccer, and volleyball are two to eight times more likely than men to tear their anterior cruciate ligaments. On the other hand, they appear to be two to eight times less likely to get into shouting matches with the referee. |
ATLANTA
Here's the city where you could find the world's largest painting (if you wanted to): "The Battle of Atlanta." Unfortunately, the battle of Atlanta isn't just a matter of history. Over a ten-year period, Atlanta had the sixth highest murder rate in the U.S., almost two-and-a-half times the average for major American cities. Four Atlanta colleges are among the five riskiest in America, in terms of crime in the neighborhoods around their campuses. And Atlanta ranks fifth in the U.S. in terms of people dying due to pollution from power plants. |
AUTUMN
Never mind all that pretty fall foliage: suicides increase when summer turns to autumn, and people born in autumn have a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease. Plus, early autumn is the height of the hurricane season. |
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