American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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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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Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
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The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology.
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Pope Francis has a master’s degree in Chemistry.
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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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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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