In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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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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The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology.
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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