In Korea, a child’s first birthday is the most important. In one part of the celebration, several items are placed on a table. The one that the baby picks up first is said to predict their future.
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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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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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Approximately 365 million people in the world have computers while half of the world's 6.5 billion population has never seen or used a telephone.
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Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
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A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.
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