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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The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
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Japanese schools do not have proms.
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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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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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