People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.
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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.”
13
More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
120
The world's tallest man reached 8 feet 11 inches at 21.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.
73
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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