Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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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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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 leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.
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People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)
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Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
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