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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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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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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Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
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Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
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Men fall in love faster than women do.
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As a rule, 66 percent of people keep their eyes closed while kissing. The rest take pleasure in watching the emotions run the gamut on the faces of their partners.
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