Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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In Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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