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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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    The United States does not have an official language.
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    Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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    Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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    American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from Imperial Japan in 1912. They sent more than 3,000 seeds to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.
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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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