Homes account for 22% of all of the energy consumed in the U.S., according to the Department of Energy, and heating and cooling account for 54% of the total.

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Hong Kong's buildings account for 89 percent of all energy consumed in the city, according to the Hong Kong government.

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Weight gain of passengers in noncommercial vehicles could account for nearly 1 billion gallons of gasoline consumed per year in the United States from 1960 to 2002, Allstate says in an infographic accompanying its blog post.

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Burger chains still account for 40% of all fast-food consumed, but diners' tastes are changing.

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Farmers, especially cotton and rice growers in those upstream states, account for 83% of the basin's consumed water.

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Food and Agriculture Organization based in Rome, over 50 billion vertebrates are consumed by humans every year, a number that does not account for fish or marine and fresh-water invertebrates, or for biomedical victims of experimentation, from dogs to hamsters to rats and mice.

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In terms of usage, Netflix says that its streaming members have now consumed over three billion hours of content, and that TV shows now account for about two thirds of that viewing activity.

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French beans and mange tout may be the staple of a gourmet's supermarket basket, but according to the Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya, these luxury vegetables that account for more than two thirds of Kenya's vegetable exports to supermarkets are not consumed by the domestic market.

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