In Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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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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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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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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