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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Touching a teddy bear can make people feel less lonely.
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It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.
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In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
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Babies cry but they don't produce tears until one to three months after birth.
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
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