‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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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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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
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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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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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You will experience the billionth second of your life when you are 31 years old.
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