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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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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