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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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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