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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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
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Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
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Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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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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