Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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People who have a strong friendship possess the ability to communicate with one another through facial expressions.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people fake it to look committed to their job.
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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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Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
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35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!
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