BodyInterestingIn 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, a dramatic increase from just nine percent in 1999.1581k14 years ago
BodyInterestingYour skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.1041k16 years ago
OutdatedBodyInterestingThere are still 5 people living who were born in the 1800s - and they're all women.767k11 years ago
PeopleInterestingIn older people, memory is best early in the morning and then declines during the late afternoon.4090716 years ago
PeopleInspiringKarl 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.”131k11 years ago
ScienceInterestingThe gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.81k12 years ago
PeopleFunnyIn 1965, French lawyer André-François Raffray agreed to pay 90-year-old Jeanne Calment a monthly fee for her apartment in Arles — he'd get it when she died. Calment lived to 122 years and 164 days, becoming the oldest verified person in history. Raffray died in 1995 at age 77, having paid more than double the apartment's value. His widow was legally required to keep paying until Calment finally died in 1997.4 days ago