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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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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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