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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The “cheerleader effect”, the theory that girls look more attractive in groups, is scientifically proven.
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The offspring of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but genetically siblings.
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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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The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.
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Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
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