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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Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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Men fall in love faster than women do.
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The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab Fisherman.
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Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.
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The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.
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2% of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits.
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