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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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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