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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Japanese schools do not have proms.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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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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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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The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology.
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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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