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And we can see brain volumes up to 40 percent less in these children.

But in Niger, for example, less than seven percent of the children are breastfed for the first six months of life, exclusively.

In Mauritania, less than three percent.

But this is transforming 99 percent of the kids who get this.

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net.

In countries where girls don't go to school and you offer a meal to girls in school, we see enrollment rates about 50 percent girls and boys.

So add in five percent, 10 percent more food.

We're seeing that now in the Horn of Africa where food prices are up 240 percent in some areas over last year.

And this zero hunger program costs .5 percent of GDP and has lifted many millions of people out of hunger and poverty.

And so that's the project that I pursued for that year, and it's continuing now as well, and found that a specific purine derivative called "guanidine" had inhibited the cell growth by approximately 60 percent.

And skeletal muscle constitutes 50 percent of our body, or over 50 percent of our body.

And one article that really stood out to me when I was just reading about this, trying to figure out why cancer doesn't go to skeletal muscle, was that it had reported 16 percent of micro-metastases to skeletal muscle upon autopsy.

We spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but we're not very good at it.

We retain just 25 percent of what we hear.

Then the efficiency of such a base station is only at about five percent.

Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school.

There's a 10 percent differential between getting BA's and all graduate programs, with guys falling behind girls.

Since 1989, when DNA testing was first used to free innocent people, over 70 percent of overturned convictions were based on eyewitness testimony.

EA: Estimates of how many innocent people are locked up range between one and four percent, which maybe doesn't sound like a lot, except that it amounts to around 87,000 people: mothers, fathers, sons locked up, often for decades, for crimes they did not commit.

EA: According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the number of young people with a father incarcerated rose 500 percent between 1980 and 2000.

You're like, "There are so many people of color here," and yet I know that the city is not made up of 90 percent African Americans, so why is it that 90 percent of the people who are in orange are African American?

Man: It's mostly, I could say, 85 percent black.

Woman: I think it was about 85 percent African-American that was sitting there.

These public defenders receive around 30 percent less funding than district attorneys do, and they often have caseloads far outnumbering what the American Bar Association recommends.

Consider the following statement: human beings only use 10 percent of their brain capacity.

The truth is, human beings use 100 percent of their brain capacity.

But a growing body of literature suggests that we mind-wander, we take our mind away from the task at hand, about 50 percent of our waking moments.

When you can get rid of all of those because somebody doesn't use any of them really, you find that you can actually cut transportation emissions as much as 90 percent.

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