Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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