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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On average a woman has 4 sexual partners in her lifetime.
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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People who are more likeable and attractive are generally perceived as more intelligent. This is called the “Halo Effect.”
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Approximately 365 million people in the world have computers while half of the world's 6.5 billion population has never seen or used a telephone.
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Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
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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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