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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15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.
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Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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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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90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
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The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.
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Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.
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Men fall in love faster than women do.
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