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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The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.
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People with light eye colors (like blue, green or grey) have a higher alcohol tolerance.
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Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
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Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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Yu Youzhen, a Chinese millionaire, works as a street sweeper for the sanitation department to set an example for her children.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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As many as one third Americans flush the toilet while they are still on it.
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