Awarding people money for doing well in IQ tests causes them to score better, $10 increased people's score by an average of more than 20 IQ points. IQ tests don’t just measure intelligence - they also measure effort.
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A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
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In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
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Women who play video games tend to have more sex and be happier with their relationships than those who don’t.
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In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
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During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.
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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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