One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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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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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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