Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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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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In March, 2014, Colorado sold $19 million dollars worth of Cannabis. $1.9 million went to schools and crime fell by 10%.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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