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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A man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the U.S. mint.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
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