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    There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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    Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from Imperial Japan in 1912. They sent more than 3,000 seeds to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.
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    In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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