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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All babies are color blind when they are born.
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If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate!)
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Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
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