Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
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76% of Americans celebrate New Year's Eve in groups of less than 20.
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Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women.
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In Korea, a child’s first birthday is the most important. In one part of the celebration, several items are placed on a table. The one that the baby picks up first is said to predict their future.
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Every workday, 6.7 million people commute to Manhattan!
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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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