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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It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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Babies crawl an average of 200m a day.
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Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
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Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
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Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.
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Every workday, 6.7 million people commute to Manhattan!
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Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a different gene for blonde hair.
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