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- 2. A _ State University professor has created a transparent solar panel that can be used in building to potentially power the entire building. It can also be retrofitted to older glass buildings to still harness power.
- 6. There is a cat who visits the University of _ in Germany every day to offer cuddles to stressed out students. The cat’s owner lives nearby and doesn’t mind her daily excursions, and the students call her Sammy, the Campus Cat.
- 8. In 1861, the entire student body of the University of _ enlisted in the Confederate Army as a single company. They suffered a 100% casualty rate during the Civil War.
- 10. The first-ever webcam was invented at the University of _ to watch a coffee pot in the break room. Now people could see if there was fresh coffee without getting up from their desks.
- 12. The Futurama writing staff held three Ph.D.s, seven masters degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at _ University.
- 13. A scientist at the University of _, USA, grew a “living ‘brain'”, “a network of 25,000 rat brain cells” that when “connected to an array of 60 electrodes that can interact with a computer” learned to fly a simulated F-22 stealth fighter jet in a range of weather conditions.
- 14. There is an airtight room in a University in _ (US), sealed in 1940, to be opened in the year 8113. The “Crypt of Civilization” contains a wealth of artifacts from literary works to everyday items.
- 15. An underachieving junior from _ University successfully designed a nuclear bomb for a term paper in 1977. He got an A on the paper, but the FBI took it and classified it.
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- 1. When the University of _ polled 250 children, all 250 reported that they disliked clowns as hospital decor.
- 3. _ has a university, with 14 staff and 150 students. It is so small because the Government pays for students to have a free university education anywhere in Europe or North America.
- 4. Biologists at _ University in Japan have discovered a new way to grow the many separate tissues that make up the human eyeball, including retinas, corneas, the eye’s lens, using stem cells extracted from a small sample of adult skin.
- 5. After 1250 gallons of mayonnaise went bad at _ State University in 2016, the school’s Sustainability Officer used an anaerobic digester to turn it into energy and power part of the campus.
- 7. The University of _ offers a class in Computer Security which is formally called “Defense Against the Dark Arts.”
- 9. An art professor at _ University created a single tree that bears 40 different types of fruit after learning that an orchard full of 150-200-year-old native fruit trees was going to be destroyed.
- 11. When asked, after 50 years of research, what he knew about the reason people sleep, William Dement, founder of _ University’s Sleep Research Center, answered, “As far as I know, the only reason we need to sleep that is real, really solid is because we get sleepy.”
- 16. Ruth Lawrence, a child prodigy, passed the _ University Maths exam at age 10, coming first out of all 530 candidates, she then completed the degree a year early by age 13.