Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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According to the New York Times, a study conducted during the 1980's found that men who kiss their wives before leaving for work live longer, get into fewer car accidents, and have a higher income than married men who don't.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
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The strangers in your dreams are actually people that you've seen in real life.
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