During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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