If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate!)
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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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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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Yu Youzhen, a Chinese millionaire, works as a street sweeper for the sanitation department to set an example for her children.
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Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people fake it to look committed to their job.
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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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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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2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.
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