1. The united states has the highest college dropout rate in the world (This American Life).
2. Jack London, HG Wells, Kerouac and Faulkner all dropped out of school (Flavorwire).
3. Galileo sent Kepler an anagram telling him he had discovered rings around Saturn - Galileo deciphered the anagram wrong to read, "Be greeted, double knob, children of Mars" and thought the message was that Mars had two moons - which was discovered to be correct hundreds of years later . Galileo sent Kepler a second anagram letting him know that Venus has phases similar to the moon having phases, which was strong evidence for the heretical theory that the Sun is the center of the universe. Galileo deciphered this to be that Juipiter has a red spot that moves in a mathematical fashion - which again is a wrong translation, but was discovered to be correct hundred of years later (This American Life).
2. Jack London, HG Wells, Kerouac and Faulkner all dropped out of school (Flavorwire).
3. Galileo sent Kepler an anagram telling him he had discovered rings around Saturn - Galileo deciphered the anagram wrong to read, "Be greeted, double knob, children of Mars" and thought the message was that Mars had two moons - which was discovered to be correct hundreds of years later . Galileo sent Kepler a second anagram letting him know that Venus has phases similar to the moon having phases, which was strong evidence for the heretical theory that the Sun is the center of the universe. Galileo deciphered this to be that Juipiter has a red spot that moves in a mathematical fashion - which again is a wrong translation, but was discovered to be correct hundred of years later (This American Life).
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