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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About 2/3 of American men prefer boxers to briefs.
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Only 2% of the worlds population is blonde.
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Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
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Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scoprions, and locusts.
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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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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The Japanese commonly put ketchup on their rice.
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