The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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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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Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.
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2% of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits.
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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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