Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
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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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All babies are color blind when they are born.
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Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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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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It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
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