91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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