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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Babies crawl an average of 200m a day.
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City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.
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Approximately 141 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged worldwide every year.
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The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.
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A person will create enough saliva to fill two average size swimming pools during his lifetime.
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Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.
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