Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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