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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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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Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women.
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More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
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The Japanese commonly put ketchup on their rice.
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Two in five people in the world marry their first love.
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There are actually seven different types of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Mirror-Image, Polar Body (Half Identical), Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, and Superfetation.
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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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