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Sting, J.K. Rowling could have been your teacher

Students, we know you may not be all that ecstatic about seeing your teachers -- and the homework they assign -- as the school year starts up. Pay attention in class, though; you never know what hidden talents your teachers might have. Just look at all of these famous former teachers:

10 homeschooled celebrities

Agatha Christie was a painfully shy girl, so her mom homeschooled her even though her two older siblings attended private school.

SI.com: SI's Alltime All-Star Team

With its diligence and reverence for record keeping, baseball is often held up as an exact science. Ted Williams chose to play on the last day of the 1941 season because .39955 -- his batting average that morning -- was not actually .400. The discovery in 1977 of an overlooked RBI for Hack Wilson in his record 1930 season was akin to scientists finding a new element, and thus made sacred the number 191.

Exoplanet trapped between fire and ice

The poet Robert Frost wondered if Earth would wind up a world of fire or ice. Astronomers have discovered that a distant planet is both.

Money Magazine: 'Should we share savings with our neighbors?'

QUESTION: My husband and I are fencing in our backyard. We'd like to connect our fence to our next door neighbor's existing fence -- in other words, have one common fence (theirs) separating the two properties rather than two parallel fences.

Fortune: What's that spell? TEAMWORK!

In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These four men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground....

Fortune: How to build a great team

In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These four men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.

If you go ...

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Fortune: A Brief Mystery of Time

I am writing this to you at some  time from some place, but I have no idea when or where that is in relation to you, to myself, to where I'm going today, or to where I've been. It's finally happene...

Is success just dumb luck?

Have you wondered why some people get all the breaks? It's not that they were born under a lucky star, but they seize opportunity when they see it.

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