- Do you ever find yourself exasperated by your child’s stubbornness? Does your daughter continually disobey authority? Or does your son hate doing what he’s told? If so: congratulations. Recent research claims a child with a stubborn streak is more likely to over-achieve in education, and go on to earn more once in the job market. The study’s findings (published in the journal Developmental Psychology) suggested that a tendency towards rule-breaking has a positive correlation with earning a higher individual income in adult life.

- For married women who can’t figure out why they always have so much housework researchers may have the answer — it’s husbands. A study (University of Michigan) showed that having a husband creates an extra seven hours of extra housework a week for women. But a wife saves her husband from an hour of chores around the house each week. Researchers found that young single women did the least amount of housework, at about 12 hours a week. Married women in their 60 and 70s did nearly twice that amount, while women with more than three children spent 28 hours a week cleaning, cooking and washing.

- People who are born in the fall will live a few months longer than the rest of us. A study looked at more than 1 million people over the age of 55 in Austria, Denmark and Australia. They found that people born from October to December tended to outlive people born in the spring by about 3 to 6 months. The same held true for people born in Australia when the researchers factored in the seasons for the Southern Hemisphere. Scientists credit an abundance of food in the traditional fall harvest months for giving babies born then a nutritional head start.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: SCHOOL FINED WORST STUDENTS, HANDED CASH TO BEST IN CLASS _ A private school in China upset some parents after it collected cash fines from low ranking students that were used to reward the school’s top performers.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: BERNIE’S ON THE FRONT PORCH _ Medics in New Orleans were called to a home by someone reporting a possible cardiac arrest on a neighbor’s front porch. They rushed over but found their “patient” quietly sitting in a chair wearing some familiar-looking mittens. It wasn’t just a manikin, but a life-sized version of the “Bernie Sanders in a chair” meme that has been going around and around (and around) online since the photo was taken of the Vermont senator at President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: BOY WAKES FROM COMA ADDICTED TO CHEESE AND SWEARING _ A 15-year-old in the UK woke up from a week-long coma swearing like crazy and craving whole wheels of cheese. His family said the teen always liked cheese.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: TEEN TOSSED SPEED CAMERA INTO OCEAN _ A young Norwegian driver did 18 days in jail for throwing a speed-trap camera into the ocean. The 19-year-old panicked when the camera caught him driving too fast on a coastal highway. It also caught him ripping the camera from its perch and pitching it into the ocean. The teen had been driving his parents’ car and wanted to keep his speeding discreet.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: YOU’RE ON MUTE… YOU’RE ON MUTE! _ Wang Dong had been lecturing for nearly two hours. He had not answered his phone; he had not let the comments from students on his Zoom call, or the departure of some of the students, distract him. Finally, he invited the students in the “Living with Mathematics” course he was teaching for the National University of Singapore to ask questions. He didn’t get any questions that related to lecture, but he did get one useful piece of information: he’d been on mute for pretty much the whole lecture. He told the students he’d give the lecture again — later.

Fun Facts

✓ In a lifetime, an average driver will release approximately 912 pints of wind inside a car.

✓ The most widely used food in the world is the onion.

ADDICTIONS YOU DIDN’T KNOW EXISTED

Addictions are powerful chemical dependencies that don’t always make sense to outsiders, or sometimes even psychologists. What we do know is that if the brain likes what it tastes, feels or sees, anything and everything can become addictive. Here are some addictions you didn’t know existed.

• Eating Cigarette Ashes: Addiction to eating cigarette ashes is a form of pica disorder, in which a person craves foods with no nutritional value. People who eat cigarette ashes may have nutritional deficiencies or be anemic. Excessive consumption of cigarette ashes could be toxic and cause gastrointestinal issues.

• Eating Chalk: Chalk eating is a common form of pica disorder that affect both children and adults. Even though it is labeled as non-hazardous, excessive chalk eating can be harmful to your health. Chalk may be contaminated during the manufacturing process and could contain metal shavings, rodent droppings and traces of chemicals that may be dangerous to ingest.

• Eating Glass: Glass eating, also called hyalophagia, is a pathological and pica disorder that is very dangerous. People who are addicted to eating glass may sustain internal injuries and have serious gastrointestinal issues. Glass eating has been a performance technique for years, and many addicts enjoy the attention that comes with eating glass.

• Hair Pulling: Hair pulling, also called trichotillomania, is an overwhelming addiction to pulling, twisting and plucking hair from the scalp or face. People who are addicted to pulling their hair typically have bald spots and may disguise their condition by wearing wigs or hats. The cause of hair pulling is not completely clear, but researchers believe genetic and environmental factors contribute to this painful addiction.

• Eating Toilet Paper: Toilet paper is another common non-food item consumed by people with pica disorder. Even though toilet paper may seem harmless because we use it on our skin every day, it can contain trace contaminants and chemicals from the manufacturing process. Not only is it unsafe to ingest these chemicals, but toilet paper is not easily digested by the body.

• Eating Soap: Believe it or not, there are quite a few people who not only enjoy having a bar of soap in their mouths, but they like to eat it too. Eating soap is a form of pica disorder that can have some serious health consequences. The toxic chemicals in soap can cause digestive problems, metabolic changes and affect the blood stream.

• Eating Laundry Detergent: Eating laundry detergent is a form of pica disorder, in which the consumer retains no nutritional value from the product. This addiction poses a serious danger to one’s health when consumed in excess. Laundry detergent is full of toxic ingredients, such as phosphates, chlorine bleach, corrosive acids and fillers that can make you sick to your stomach and cause several other health complications.

• Thumb Sucking: Thumb sucking is an addiction shared by children and adults alike. There are many reasons why people suck their thumbs during adulthood, such as anxiety and security. Aside from public humiliation and embarrassment, adults who are addicted to sucking their thumb might experience dental problems, social isolation and shame.

• Bodybuilding: Bodybuilding is something that can start out as normal and healthy, but can become very addictive in no time. Extreme bodybuilding can lead to many unhealthy practices, such as steroid usage. The obsession with being as muscular and strong as possible puts serious strain on one’s body and heart and can lead to disordered eating, as well.

• Tattoos: For many people, tattoos are like potato chips — you can never have just one. However, there comes a point where getting tattoos can become a serious addiction. Tattoo addicts may be obsessed with the pain of the needle and the adrenaline response, as well as the attention they get from having tons of tattoos. The more tattoos a person gets the greater their chances are for having allergic reactions, skin infections and contracting blood-borne diseases.

• Piercings: Piercings, much like tattoos, can be very addictive. Whether it’s the pain of piercing the skin or the attention it draws, people can become addicted to piercings in an unhealthy way. There are some serious risks involved with excessive piercing, such as bacterial infections, allergic reactions, blood-borne diseases and damage to nerves.

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