In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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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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There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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