There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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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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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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In March, 2014, Colorado sold $19 million dollars worth of Cannabis. $1.9 million went to schools and crime fell by 10%.
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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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