The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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