Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.
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Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
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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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The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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