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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Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.
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It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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According to a study, women ages 22 to 30 with no children and no spouse earned a higher median income than comparable men in 39 of the 50 largest U.S. cities in 2008.
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People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.
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76% of Americans celebrate New Year's Eve in groups of less than 20.
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