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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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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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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