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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44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
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Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.
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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.
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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate!)
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