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 first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
10
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
2
In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
5
The United States does not have an official language.
88
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
65