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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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    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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    In China, teachers allow children to sleep in class for around 20 minutes to help improve their learning.
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    Iceland Has the Most Books Published per Person per Year in the World
    In Iceland, more books are published and sold per person every year than anywhere else in the world. Ten percent of Icelanders become a published author in their lifetime.
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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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    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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    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 the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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