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There is a college called Clemson that plans to build a sports center for their football players worth $55 million. It includes a 9 hole golf course, sand volleyball courts, bowling lanes just for starters. An “arms race” is on between American colleges to lure good football players with stellar athletic facilities, In 2014, according …
There are more than seven billion humans on the Earth, and to feed them we’ve taken 40% of the planet’s total land mass and turned it into cornfields to produce feed for beef cattle. Unfortunately, the world population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion by 2050, and possibly 11 billion by the end of …
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These are some of the documented delusions of Brits, for your amusement (or sympathy): Your body, or part of your body, is misshapen or ugly: 46.4% You are not in control of some of your actions: 44.3% You are an exceptionally gifted person that others do not recognise: 40.5% Certain places are duplicated, i.e. are in two different locations at the same …
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There is a college called Clemson that plans to build a sports center for their football players worth $55 million(!) It includes a 9 hole golf course, sand volleyball courts, bowling lanes just for starters. An “arms race” is on between American colleges to lure good football players with stellar athletic facilities They don’t discuss academic …
An estimated $42 billion is tipped annually in restaurants and bars alone in the United States. Millions of US service-sector workers are paid below minimum wage and rely on gratuities. Michael Lynn at Cornell University, who has made a career of trying to understand tipping, thinks he can explain it to some extent. Tipping starts, …
