A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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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.
10
In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
82
No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
51
Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
24
Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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