In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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