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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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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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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