Some farmers in Kenya are using elephants' natural fear of bees and building "beehive fences" that keep wild elephants from trampling the crops. It keeps the farms safe, and prevents farmers from having to kill elephants to defend their livelihood!
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In China, teachers allow children to sleep in class for around 20 minutes to help improve their learning.
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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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A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.
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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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