Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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