40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
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Girls have more tastebuds than boys.
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Dutch, on average are the tallest people.
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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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Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a different gene for blonde hair.
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People who are more likeable and attractive are generally perceived as more intelligent. This is called the “Halo Effect.”
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47% of people have a nightmare at least once a month.
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