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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In a lifetime, an average person walks the equivalent of 5 equators
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Men fall in love faster than women do.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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All babies are color blind when they are born.
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According to the American Society for Microbiology, 90% of women and 75% of men wash their hands after using a public restroom.
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