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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People who are more likeable and attractive are generally perceived as more intelligent. This is called the “Halo Effect.”
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Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. That is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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