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 boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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In the presence of attractive women, men find running easier, take more risks, donate more money, consume more calories, and talk more.
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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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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.
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The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.
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