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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Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
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Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
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In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
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Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a different gene for blonde hair.
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