500 mostly useless facts…and still

…but at least the following among them are damn interesting… Obviously I cannot guarantee that they are all true, but you can check fast at least the chewing-gum-peeling-onions-no-crying hypothesis; do not, by any means, try the run-in-zigzag-to-lose-crocodiles-or-alligators or the push-thumbs-in-crocodile’s-eyeballs-to-escape-his-jaws or the throw-a-cat-from-at-least-the-8th-floor-no-lower :-).
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Denmark: Happiest lige nu!

This is an absolutely wonderful (and fun to read) article in the BMJ that a short review in today’s NY Times does not do full justice to.

The article explains why the 5.4 million Danes have consistently ranked as happiest Europeans for more than 30 years, on Eurobarometer surveys (they also rank first on the latest World Map of Happiness).  → Read more