American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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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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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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