Education Facts

Research shows that women with higher levels of education are significantly more likely to report enjoying both giving and receiving oral sex compared to those with less education.

Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.

Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

The average IQ is designed to be exactly 100, with scores above 130 considered gifted and above 145 typically classified as genius-level.

Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.

Adult movie star, Ron Jeremy, has a master's degree in Special Education.

Evanston Township High School in Illinois played Justin Bieber's 'Baby' as a fundraiser between classes. Students had to pay to stop it. $1,000 was collected in 3 days.

Japanese schools do not have proms.

(Former) Billionaire Chuck Feeney gave away over 99% of his multi-billion dollar fortune to philanthropic endeavors, such as helping underprivileged kids go to college. He is now worth a few million dollars.

In what country will you find the most Universities? India.

Only 51% of South Carolina high school students will graduate, the lowest of any state.

Most Japanese schools don't have dedicated janitors. Instead, children do the daily cleaning, which originated from the Buddhist traditions that associate cleaning with morality.

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%.

Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.

A young programmer offered a homeless man the choice between $100 cash or coding lessons. Leo Grand chose the lessons, and now his first mobile app is available to download for $.99.

As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!

According to surveys by the National Science Foundation, about 1 in 4 Americans incorrectly answered that the Sun orbits the Earth, and roughly half of Americans accept the theory of evolution.

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.

In 2007, a customer kindly gave a $10,000 tip to a Pizza Hut waitress after hearing she had financial troubles which had forced her to drop out of college.

In 2010, George Lucas said "I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race." Two years later, Lucas sold Lucasfilm Ltd. to Disney for 4.05 billion dollars and is donating the majority of the proceeds to a charity that focuses on education.

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.

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.

In 1948, Costa Rica abolished its military and spends the money on education and culture instead.

Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.