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Way down in the list

  Number of universities in the top 1000: US: 154 UK: 94 China: 59 Italy: 49 Germany: 49 Australia: 44 India: 38 Spain: 36 France: 36 Japan: 33 Canada: 32 Iran: 29 Saudi Arabia: 18 South Korea: 18 Taiwan: 16 Russia: 15 Switzerland: 15 Pakistan: 14 Netherlands: 13 Egypt: 13 Finland: 12 Belgium: 12 Sweden: 11 Turkey: 10 Portugal: 10 South Africa: 9 UAE: 8 Ireland: 8 Austria: 7 Hong Kong: 7 Brazil: 7 Norway: 7 Malaysia: 6 Denmark: 6 Greece: 6 Thailand: 5 New Zealand: 5 Romania: 4 Ghana: 4 Israel: 4 Iceland: 4 Poland: 4 Lebanon: 4 Serbia: 3 Jordan: 3 Czechia: 3 Chile: 3

guess which country is not on this list

  THE WORLD'S MOST INCREDIBLE MUSEUMS: 1. The Louvre → Paris → the world's largest and most visited museum 2. The British Museum → London → the entire history of human civilisation 3. The Met → New York → one of the greatest art collections ever assembled 4. The Vatican Museums → Rome → Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel alone is worth it 5. The Uffizi → Florence → the finest Renaissance art collection in existence 6. The Prado → Madrid → Goya, Velázquez and El Greco under one roof 7. The Rijksmuseum → Amsterdam → Rembrandt and Vermeer in their home city 8. The Hermitage → St Petersburg → three million objects across 350 rooms 9. The Egyptian Museum → Cairo → Tutankhamun's treasures where they belong 10. The Acropolis Museum → Athens → ancient Greece told perfectly 11. The Smithsonian → Washington DC → twenty-one museums, all completely free 12. The Natural History Museum → London → the blue whale stops everyone who sees it 13. The Guggenheim → Bilbao → the building is as i...

English for donations only

Not only do Israelis generally not speak English, even the signs listing the departments in the hospital are all in Hebrew. If you don't speak the language you are lost. However, the donor plaques are all in English because Israelis don't or can't donate. The money is all from chutz.

4 years

This bus arrivals sign has been broken and left unfixed for 4 years. So not only were electronic bus signs not invented in Israel (they had been in Europe for years) but they aren't even maintained.  In  Zurich, would anybody bash in a sign? Would the city leave it broken for 4 years?