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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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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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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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