In Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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