In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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