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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The largest hotel suite in the world is located 22 stories under the surface in the Grand Canyon Caverns. One night for two people in this 65 million year old cave is $700.
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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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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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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