Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
13
There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
6
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
72
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.
10
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.
14
50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
183