Awarding people money for doing well in IQ tests causes them to score better, $10 increased people's score by an average of more than 20 IQ points. IQ tests don’t just measure intelligence - they also measure effort.
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Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
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In 2002, Kenyan Maasai tribespeople donated 14 cows to the US to help with the aftermath of 9/11.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)
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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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A man is more likely to get a woman's phone number if he is accompanied by a dog.
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