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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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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