When the 2013 government shutdown threatened the closing down of a national program giving medical attention and meals to children, John D. Arnold donated $10 million of his own money to keep it afloat.
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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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Nachos were actually invented by a guy named Nacho. Happy Nacho Day!
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If you arrange the first letters of the names of the main characters in Inception, you would get DREAMS.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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In Mexico, artists can pay their taxes using artwork that they create.
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The biggest burger in Britain, dubbed the 'Apocalypse Burger', is a mammoth 25,000 calories, weighs 11kg (25lb) and contains £150 (around $233 USD) worth of ingredients.
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After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".
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