Surprise.. It's a fact of life. These may be some of the saddest facts you will ever hear, but it's not all that bad. Negative emotions can keep you healthy.
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#1 There is so much to be happy about in life, but these are not those things. Little facts that are going to turn that smile into a frown.
#2 Poor Pluto. Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun. That's because Pluto orbits at an average distance of 5.9 billion km from the Sun, while Earth only orbits at 150 million km.
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#3 By age four, 90% of children have grasped the concept of lying, and it just gets worse from there. And men are worse than women.
#4 Your chances are almost 15 percent higher of dying on your birthday than the average day of the year. “Risky behaviors” involving alcohol, driving and stress are probably the cause.
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#5 Experts believe men with high levels of testosterone are more likely to lose their hair, especially if baldness already runs in the family, but it is also linked to heart disease.
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#6 Most baldness is caused when hair follicles, the tiny sacs in the scalp from which hair grows, become exposed to too much dihydrotestosterone, or DHT. This is a chemical produced by the male hormone testosterone.
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#7 Now this is sad. Ming was unfortunately killed by researchers when they opened its shell to find out how old it was. The unlucky mollusc was picked up from an Icelandic seabed back in 2006, but scientists were unaware of the creature's record breaking age.
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#8 It got even worse since 2011. More than a third of divorce filings last year contained the word Facebook, according to a U.K. survey by Divorce Online. In the USA Facebook was mentioned as a portion of filings in over 70% of cases filed in 2015.
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#9 People used to believe that you didn’t have to be happy at work to succeed. And you didn’t need to like the people you work with, or even share their values. But people who work at something they enjoy, even for less income, are more satisfied in their lives.
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#10 About 6 waves of massive extinction are known in the history of the Earth. The last one wiped out the dinosaur world 65 million years ago and was probably due to a meteorite collision. But the recent one has no natural causes. It is man made and rampant, eliminating three animal or plant species every hour.
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#11 Have these random facts bummed you out?
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#12 Don't worry about it. Feeling sad, mad, critical or otherwise awful? Surprise: negative emotions are essential for mental health. Instead of backing away from negative emotions, accept them. Acknowledge how you are feeling without rushing to change your emotional state.
#13 Embrace the sadness.. There are still plenty of good things to be happy about.
