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    CEO takes over company worth $9m, fires management, gives power to employees, and now makes over $200m
    Ricardo Semler, a CEO in his twenties, took over a company worth $9m, fired most of the management, and gave the power to the employees. It now has a turnover of over $200m.
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    In Czech Republic, women are entitled to up to 4 years of paid maternity leave, increasing to 7 years if the child is disabled.
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    Wife-Carrying Championship in Finland Gives Winners Wife's Weight in Beer
    There's a wife-carrying championship that takes place in Finland every year where the winner receives his wife's weight in beer.
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    MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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    There's a woman named Veronica Seider who had vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile (1.6km) away.
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    Game Boy Inventor
    Game Boy Inventor
    The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, was originally Nintendo’s janitor and maintenance man.
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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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    World's Tallest Dog
    World's Tallest Dog
    Zeus, a Great Dane, was crowned the world's tallest dog in 2012. Measuring a whopping 1.11 meters (3'8") from shoulder to foot, he stood at an amazing 2.2 meters (7'3") in height on his hind legs.
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