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    The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology.
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    Bad At Maths? You Could Have Math Anxiety
    People with poor mathematical skills aren't necessarily bad at math because they are 'ungifted'. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety' that makes people perform worse, sometimes leading to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more math anxiety.
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    According to a 2011 poll, 32% of Russians believe that the Sun orbits Earth.
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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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    Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
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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 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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    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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