The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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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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Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
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Japanese schools do not have proms.
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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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Students at the John Hopkins University collaboratively decided to opt out of their final since the professor set his curve based on the highest score grading it as 100%. They chose to receive a score of zero, making it the highest grade and thereby getting 100%.
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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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