On average, every dollar bill you touch has over 3,000 different types of bacteria.
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Sudbury Valley School allows students to do whatever they want; no curriculum, tests, homework, or even classes unless requested. 82% of students get accepted to college, as opposed to the 63% national public school average.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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The name Joshua is Hebrew for 'Jesus'.
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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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If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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