The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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