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 turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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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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