A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
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People who are more likeable and attractive are generally perceived as more intelligent. This is called the “Halo Effect.”
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Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a different gene for blonde hair.
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44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
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Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water!
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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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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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