In the presence of attractive women, men find running easier, take more risks, donate more money, consume more calories, and talk more.
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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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Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.
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More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
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A couple had their wedding rings engraved with a waveform of their own voices saying "I do."
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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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2% of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits.
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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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