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Has the number of periods a woman has in her lifetime quadrupled?
A claim about the number of periods a woman has in her lifetime 鈥� and a suspicious stat on single-use face masks.
Has the number of periods a woman has, on average, in her lifetime quadrupled since the industrial revolution?
A recent article estimated that 129 billion single-use face masks are used every day around the world. It sounds wrong, but how wrong is it? And how did it get so wrong?
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