‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people fake it to look committed to their job.
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Men are more attracted to women whose bone structure is similar to their own mothers. It's called "sexual imprinting".
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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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2% of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits.
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44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
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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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Two in five people in the world marry their first love.
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