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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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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Pope Francis has a master’s degree in Chemistry.
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Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
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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 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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