Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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In Korea, a child’s first birthday is the most important. In one part of the celebration, several items are placed on a table. The one that the baby picks up first is said to predict their future.
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A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
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Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
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Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.
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Karl Pillemer, a professor, performed a study on thousands of elderly people and what advice they had about life. On happiness, there was a consensus: “the elders viewed happiness as a choice, not the result of how life treats you.”
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Eskimos don't gamble.
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Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a different gene for blonde hair.
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