losing things, n.Trivia

The average American spends 2.5 days annually looking for lost items.

On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.

Squirrels are likely to lose more than half of the nuts they hide

Since 1950, the United States has lost at least eight nuclear weapons, including a hydrogen bomb that simply rolled off an aircraft and fell into the Pacific Ocean.

The average person spends 12 weeks a year 'looking for things'.

If you find a lost ID ( or lost wallet with an ID inside of it), you can drop it in a USPS mailbox, and they will return it to its owner free of charge.

In Japan, lost property of 130,000 mobile phones lost and reported missing in 2018, 83% were returned to their owners.