In China, teachers allow children to sleep in class for around 20 minutes to help improve their learning.
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Pope Francis has a master’s degree in Chemistry.
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Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
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Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.
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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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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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