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Parents and Their Kids Text 5,800 Times a Year

We may not get to spend that much time with our families, but MAN are we in sync with them when it comes to taking advantage of the unlimited talking and texting in our family plans.  A new survey found parents and children spend an average of less than an hour face-to-face every day, but we make up for that by staying in constant contact. 

The Most Important Food Innovation From Each State

America may not be good at inventing food, but we’re FANTASTIC at taking food that already exists and making it better.  Thrillist put together a list of the most important FOOD INNOVATION from each state.  And they did a pretty good job, because a lot of these are going to be pretty hard to argue.  Well, except for North Dakota, they’ll argue.  Here are some highlights. 

A Paramedic Ran His First 10K, and Saved Another Runner’s Life

A 32-year-old guy named Matt Howell was running in his first 10K earlier this month in Richmond, Virginia.  And around the three-mile mark, he saw another runner who’d COLLAPSED.  But luckily Matt’s been a firefighter and a PARAMEDIC for about ten years.  So he stopped to help, and realized the guy didn’t have a pulse.

You Unlock Your Phone Once Every 11 Minutes, bout 80 Times a Day

Don’t worry, you’re not addicted to your phone.  Obsessed, maybe.   A new study found the average person unlocks their iPhone 80 times a day.  If you assume there’s 15 hours between when you start using it in the morning, and stop using it at night, that means you check your phone every 11 minutes and 15 seconds.