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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Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.
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The world's tallest man reached 8 feet 11 inches at 21.
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There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.
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76% of Americans celebrate New Year's Eve in groups of less than 20.
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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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