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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Every workday, 6.7 million people commute to Manhattan!
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Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people fake it to look committed to their job.
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You will experience the billionth second of your life when you are 31 years old.
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Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.
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More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
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