The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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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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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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On average women can hear better than men.
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Studies show that the risk of a “secret love” being revealed heightens romantic feelings for the partners, thanks to increased levels of phenylethylamine (PEA).
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44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
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Only 2% of the worlds population is blonde.
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