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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In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car.
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Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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On average women can hear better than men.
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The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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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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Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
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