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 average American consumes 9 pounds of food additives every year.
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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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76% of Americans celebrate New Year's Eve in groups of less than 20.
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Dutch, on average are the tallest people.
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All babies are color blind when they are born.
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Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
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