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    Man who mines diamonds and gold from NYC sidewalks makes over $600 in a week
    There's a man named Raffi Stepanian who mines diamonds and gold from New York City sidewalks, making over $600 in one week.
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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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    Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
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    The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.
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    There's an Iranian man who hasn't washed for over 60 years and smokes animal faeces.
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    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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    Bad At Maths? You Could Have Math Anxiety
    People with poor mathematical skills aren't necessarily bad at math because they are 'ungifted'. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety' that makes people perform worse, sometimes leading to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more math anxiety.
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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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