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 most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab Fisherman.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
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City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.
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95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.
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Men fall in love faster than women do.
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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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