Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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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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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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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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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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