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TIL a study found that a hundred high schools - about 0.3 percent of the nationwide total - account for 23 percent of students at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Of those hundred, all but six are private.

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OGGBL TIL the lives of children were so valued in England that two days prior to declaring war against Nazi Germany an operation to evacuate 800,000 children began moving kids to safety in the country for fear of aerial bombardment.
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