One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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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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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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In Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
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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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