Awarding people money for doing well in IQ tests causes them to score better, $10 increased people's score by an average of more than 20 IQ points. IQ tests don’t just measure intelligence - they also measure effort.
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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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On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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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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People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
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The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
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