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Fun Fact


Fun Fact: The United States of America has the largest military budget

in the world.

Fun Fact: Our budget is larger than that

of the next fourteen countries below us

combined.

Fun Fact: If we would take some of that money,

that ridiculous amount of money,

and spend it on education,

then maybe

I wouldn't be awake at half past midnight

applying for the twentieth scholarship I've applied for this evening,

just so I might have some hope

of being able to afford

to go

to school.

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