Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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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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According to a study, women ages 22 to 30 with no children and no spouse earned a higher median income than comparable men in 39 of the 50 largest U.S. cities in 2008.
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