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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Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
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The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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Only 10-20% of the population can wiggle their ears and raise one eyebrow.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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47% of people have a nightmare at least once a month.
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