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Studies show being 'grateful' helps you make better decisions and investments.

Thinking of the future is usually what keeps people up at night, thinking of the past can usually help you sleep.

Men who help around in the house tend to get laid more often.

Singing when you are tensed helps you avoid depression and anxiety.

An US cult leader once gave 600 acres of land to God but the state of Pennsylvania took possession and sold it because God didn't pay his taxes.

According to a study of 2017, the world's 25 million metric tonnes of spiders eat 400-800 million tonnes of insects every year - equivalent to the amount of meat and fish that humans consume over the same period.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.

The E.Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 percent.

Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, US First Lady Laura Bush and Nepal's Prime Minister Tanka Prasad Acharya were all librarians.

Book preservation formally started in Nepal when the Unifier Prithivi Narayan Shah amalgamated all books confiscated during his war campaigns, and started a library. This was roughly a decade before America's Independence in 1776.

You can get high-speed Internet on the moon.

Cuckoos have known to take a non-stop flight from Central India to the eastern coast of Africa - a whooping 2300 miles.

Scientists may have found the world's most relaxing song. "Weightless" by Marconi Union was shown to reduce study participants' stress by 65%.

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

Delete your browser cookies or go incognito before you buy airline tickets. Ticket prices go up when you visit travel sites multiple times.

When you eat your food slowly it causes better digestion, reduce stress, helps you lose weight, and enjoy your food!

According to psychologists, exposure to nature allows us to remember and value important things like relationships, sharing, and community.

The average amount of time a woman can keep a secret is 47 hours and 15 minutes.

Talking to yourself makes you smarter.

When you drink a glass of water, it has already been drunk by other people and animals, possibly several times over.

Teacher often expect more attractive children to perform well, leading to more attention, less punishment, and better grades.

"Swims" upside down still looks like "Swims".

According to a news from Gorkhapatra dated 1913 November 10 Monday, a Japanese author recently completed a novel comprising 106 sections with each section containing 1000 pages, around 3.2 million lines and 10 million words. It took him 61 years to write the novel.

Fred Cohen is considered the father of computer virus.

Higher levels of maternal vitamin D during pregnancy have been linked to better muscle development in children.

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