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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There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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