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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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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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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People who are more likeable and attractive are generally perceived as more intelligent. This is called the “Halo Effect.”
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44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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