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 first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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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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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.
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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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