Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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The world's tallest man reached 8 feet 11 inches at 21.
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City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.
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Studies show that financially stable men prefer smaller breasts.
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Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people fake it to look committed to their job.
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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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