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Need a good reason to study hard?

Here is one.

If you do NOT, your parents, if you are in Japan, are likely to go to the Utsunomiya Zoo to get charms made out of elephant poop, dung and give it to you.

"What's that on your desk, Taro?"

"That's a bag of elephant poop, Hanako."

"What for?"

"Not sure, but I think my mom and dad are trying to tell me something."

Zoo workers make the charms by extracting fiber from the dung of a 36-year old Asian elephant.

It is then sterilized and processed into paper.

Written on them is 'gokaku' = pass.

People are buying the stuff and the zoo is already planning next year's version.

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