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.
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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
During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
15
US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
7
There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
15
Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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