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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The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.
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All babies are color blind when they are born.
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Women mature much faster than men.
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Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
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Babies cry but they don't produce tears until one to three months after birth.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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