Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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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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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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More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
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Studies suggest that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more "working memory" and "sharper brains".
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