In Korea, a child’s first birthday is the most important. In one part of the celebration, several items are placed on a table. The one that the baby picks up first is said to predict their future.
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Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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Babies crawl an average of 200m a day.
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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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Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.
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Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
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One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye.
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A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.
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