Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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