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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Women rate men more attractive if other women are looking and smiling at him.
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Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.
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The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab Fisherman.
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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The Japanese, on average, are the shortest people.
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