One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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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 U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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