Every workday, 6.7 million people commute to Manhattan!
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A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.
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There's an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich people'.
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Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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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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About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
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The “cheerleader effect”, the theory that girls look more attractive in groups, is scientifically proven.
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