During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
25
You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
329
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.
10
91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
197
The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
15