In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
97
During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
25
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
72
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.
11
Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
391
Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
13
The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
36