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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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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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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Men fall in love faster than women do.
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Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
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Dutch, on average are the tallest people.
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More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
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A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
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