Its the weekly wrap for Five Things You Need To Know Today. 1. Harvard earns enough money on interest from its endowment that it could offer free tuition to all students and still make profit on the interest. 2. Carrie Fisher made George Lucas give her a copy of the Star Wars Christmas Special. She now plays it at the end of parties when she wants everyone to leave. 3. That it will never come again, is what makes life so sweet. 4. La Rinconada, Peru the highest elevated city on earth has a goldmine where miners work for 30 days without pay. On the 31st day, they are allowed to take as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders. 5. France lost so many workers during its failed attempt to dig the Panama Canal, that for a time their project’s main source of income was selling the corpses (pickled in brine water) to medical schools all over the world as cadavers. Carry on.
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 12:22:43 +0000
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