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The federal government once built 33 courthouses with extra courtrooms equivalent to nine more courthouses - entirely by accident.
An artist took a federal grant and created "art" out of a decommissioned Newark city bus to leave it on a pole 28 feet in the...
The Federal Aviation Administration spent $5 million on a three-week-long Christmas party in 2009 and called it a conference.
The Army Corps of Engineers built a dam in Oklahoma for $50 million, only to have the upstream river dry out, so the lake never formed.
The Census Bureau spent $2.5 mllion in 2010 to advertise on the Super Bowl, and the ad laid one of the event's biggest bombs.
The National Science Foundation once spent $440,000 on research into online dating and how that affects its practitioners.
Conferences on AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) offered luxuries to their conferees that contributed nothing to a solution.
The federal government’s airport subsidies pay for commercial flight routes that carry few passengers because people drive the distance.
In 2010 the federal government spent a million dollars putting poems up for zoo visitors to read in five big-city zoos.
The Department of Energy, responsible for the energy habits of other federal agencies, wasted electricity in its offices.
