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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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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