There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
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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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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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In 21 U.S. states, WALMART is the single largest employer.
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A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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In 1997, a survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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