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    Worrying and Intelligence
    Worrying and Intelligence
    Worrying too much is scientifically associated with higher intelligence. People who over-think tend to have higher IQs.
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    Valentine Tapley
    Valentine Tapley
    Valentine Tapley promised to never shave again if Abraham Lincoln was elected president. He died in 1910 with a 12-foot-long beard.
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    Bad At Maths? You Could Have Math Anxiety
    People with poor mathematical skills aren't necessarily bad at math because they are 'ungifted'. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety' that makes people perform worse, sometimes leading to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more math anxiety.
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    Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
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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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    People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
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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 are actually seven different types of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Mirror-Image, Polar Body (Half Identical), Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, and Superfetation.
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