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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 the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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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 is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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    Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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    Gay Bomb
    Gay Bomb
    The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
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    91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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