‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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The average American consumes 9 pounds of food additives every year.
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In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
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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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There are actually seven different types of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Mirror-Image, Polar Body (Half Identical), Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, and Superfetation.
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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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In a lifetime, an average person walks the equivalent of 5 equators
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