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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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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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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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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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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