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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Touching a teddy bear can make people feel less lonely.
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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
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Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
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The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.
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