The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
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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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According to Harris Interactive, 70% of men and 57% of women shower daily.
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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
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Awarding people money for doing well in IQ tests causes them to score better, $10 increased people's score by an average of more than 20 IQ points. IQ tests don’t just measure intelligence - they also measure effort.
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