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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Most people turn their music down in the car when finding a street sign to "see better".
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Dutch, on average are the tallest people.
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Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
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Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
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Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
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Only 2% of the worlds population is blonde.
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