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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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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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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