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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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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