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 retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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