Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
13
In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
257
Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
8
A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
225
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
72
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86