Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
27
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86
You will experience the billionth second of your life when you are 31 years old.
21
If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
15
Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
163
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.”
13