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 county in California called Yolo.
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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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There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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