One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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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The US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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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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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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