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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.
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A person will create enough saliva to fill two average size swimming pools during his lifetime.
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Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
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All babies are color blind when they are born.
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About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
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