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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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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The US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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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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