An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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Babies are born without knee caps.
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