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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In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
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Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a different gene for blonde hair.
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Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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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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On average a woman has 4 sexual partners in her lifetime.
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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 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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