Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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 Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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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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