Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
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All babies are color blind when they are born.
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Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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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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