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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Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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