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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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to your door.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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Most lipstick contains fish scales!
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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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