The offspring of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but genetically siblings.
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The “cheerleader effect”, the theory that girls look more attractive in groups, is scientifically proven.
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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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Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
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Dolly Dimples, a 555 lbs. woman, lost 443 lbs in one year by eating nothing but baby food.
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Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
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