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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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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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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