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.
225
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
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.
7
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
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
36
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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