In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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