Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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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 retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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