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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Studies suggest that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more "working memory" and "sharper brains".
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It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
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Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.
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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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Men fall in love faster than women do.
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