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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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 semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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