2% of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
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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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