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    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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    Dinosaur, Colorado
    Dinosaur, Colorado
    In Colorado, USA, there's a small town called Dinosaur. Some of its street names include Brontosaurus Blvd, Brontosaurus Bypass, Stegosaurus Freeway, and Tyrannosaurus Trail.
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    Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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    Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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    The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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    The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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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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