There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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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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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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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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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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