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 Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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