In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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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.
13
In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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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 retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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