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.
9
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.”
13
Dutch, on average are the tallest people.
187
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
79
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
144
Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a different gene for blonde hair.
7
Studies show that financially stable men prefer smaller breasts.
16
Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
131