People Facts

    People Facts

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    Gestures in Bulgaria
    Gestures in Bulgaria
    In Bulgaria, people shake their heads to indicate 'yes' and nod for 'no'.
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    Amou Haji
    Amou Haji
    There's an Iranian man who hasn't washed for over 60 years and smokes animal faeces.
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    Only 2% of the Earth's population are natural redheads.
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    In Korea, a child’s first birthday is the most important. In one part of the celebration, several items are placed on a table. The one that the baby picks up first is said to predict their future.
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    Studies suggest that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more "working memory" and "sharper brains".
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    People who are more likeable and attractive are generally perceived as more intelligent. This is called the “Halo Effect.”
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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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    Bad At Maths? You Could Have Math Anxiety
    People with poor mathematical skills aren't necessarily bad at math because they are 'ungifted'. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety' that makes people perform worse, sometimes leading to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more math anxiety.
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    On average, men's noses are 10% larger than women's.
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    Trendy Crooked Teeth
    Trendy Crooked Teeth
    In Japan, ‘yaeba’ (or crooked teeth) in girls is considered cute and attractive. Girls actually undergo procedures to un-straighten their teeth.
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    It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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    Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. That is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
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    Yu Youzhen, a Chinese millionaire, works as a street sweeper for the sanitation department to set an example for her children.
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    There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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    There's an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich people'.
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    A couple had their wedding rings engraved with a waveform of their own voices saying "I do."
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    Awarding people money for doing well in IQ tests causes them to score better, $10 increased people's score by an average of more than 20 IQ points. IQ tests don’t just measure intelligence - they also measure effort.
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    According to a study, women ages 22 to 30 with no children and no spouse earned a higher median income than comparable men in 39 of the 50 largest U.S. cities in 2008.
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    ‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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    The “cheerleader effect”, the theory that girls look more attractive in groups, is scientifically proven.
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