Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.
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Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
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Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
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2% of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits.
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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Awarding people money for doing well in IQ tests causes them to score better, $10 increased people's score by an average of more than 20 IQ points. IQ tests don’t just measure intelligence - they also measure effort.
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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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