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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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.”
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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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