Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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