Only 10-20% of the population can wiggle their ears and raise one eyebrow.
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Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.
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The offspring of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but genetically siblings.
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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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90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn 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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