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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
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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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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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