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.
10
The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
54
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
82
Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
391
In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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