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 US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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