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Harvard is the oldest university in the United States

The college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 1636 Harvard College was established by vote of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636, sixteen years after the Mayflower landed. It was named after John Harvard, a minister who left it his library and half his estate in 1639. Teaching began with a single instructor and a handful of students, and the college is now the oldest corporation in the Americas. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 1636. The figure is taken from Harvard University, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.