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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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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