Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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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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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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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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