Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
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In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
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Forty percent of Americans have never visited a dentist.
33
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.
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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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There's an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich people'.
10
Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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