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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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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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 Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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