{"id":489,"date":"2007-05-18T06:13:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=489"},"modified":"2007-05-18T06:13:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T05:13:08","slug":"the-human-footprint-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"The Human Footprint (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vocabulary of the average UK citizen is just 25,000 words, only 4% of the 616,000 words in the  English Oxford Dictionary.<br \/>\nWe speak on average 4,300 words a day &#8211; more for women (6,400-8,000), less for men (2,000-4,000). That&#8217;s 123,205,750 words in a lifetime.<br \/>\nOver a lifetime we will know 1,700 people . We will have 300 people in our social group at anytime.<br \/>\nThe average adult will have 10 different partners in a lifetime, having sex about 2 times a week or 4,239 times in all!<br \/>\nWe will fall in love 3 times. The average marriage will last 11.5 years and 70% of us will attempt a marriage once.<br \/>\nWe will on average live for 2,475,576,000 seconds.<br \/>\nFootnote: if you&#8217;ve enjoyed this week&#8217;s statistics from the television programme &#8220;The Human Footprint&#8221;,  you&#8217;ll find a pretty comprehensive list of all the figures <a href=\"http:\/\/pilotgcseradicalgeography.co.uk\/2007\/04\/28\/the-human-footprint\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vocabulary of the average UK citizen is just 25,000 words, only 4% of the 616,000 words in the English Oxford Dictionary. We speak on average 4,300 words a day &#8211; more for women (6,400-8,000), less for men (2,000-4,000). That&#8217;s 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. Over a lifetime we will know 1,700 people . We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}