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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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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Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.
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Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.
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95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.
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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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The typical person spends about 600 hours having sex between the ages of 20 and 70.
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