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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One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye.
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Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.
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Dolly Dimples, a 555 lbs. woman, lost 443 lbs in one year by eating nothing but baby food.
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On average, a person will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The typical person spends about 600 hours having sex between the ages of 20 and 70.
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There are actually seven different types of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Mirror-Image, Polar Body (Half Identical), Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, and Superfetation.
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