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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The US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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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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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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