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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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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The United States does not have an official language.
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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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