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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Babies crawl an average of 200m a day.
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Nearly 30% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras.
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
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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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If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate!)
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Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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