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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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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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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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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