Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
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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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95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.
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Thrity-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
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People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)
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More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
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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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