Harvard Facts

A 1998 Harvard study of nearly 8,000 men found that those who ate chocolate 1-3 times per month lived almost a year longer than those who never ate it, likely due to antioxidant compounds called flavonoids.

In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.

In the 2004 Harvard-Yale game, Yale students tricked thousands of Harvard fans into holding up cards that together spelled out "WE SUCK."

Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, felt his literature professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper by George Orwell and received a B-.

Harvard's endowment is so massive that its annual investment returns alone exceed the total tuition revenue from all undergraduate students.