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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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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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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