There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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