There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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