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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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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