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The Statue Of Liberty Isn’t In New York. The Statue of Liberty, which adorns pretty much every bit of tourist memorabilia you can purchase in the Big Apple, is actually not located in New York City at all. It’s technically in Jersey City, New Jersey. |
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Atlantic City Has The World’s Longest Boardwalk (4.5 miles long) |
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The Original Capital of the United States Was Philadelphia. The country’s capital wasn’t always Washington, D.C. As stipulated by the Residence Act, Philly was made to be the temporary capital of the newly created United States of America between 1790 and 1800, while Washington, D.C., was being built. |
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Harvard Was the First University In the United States. The school was founded in 1636, in Cambridge, Massachusetts—right across the Charles River from Boston. |
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Lincoln Created the Secret Service the Day of His Assassination. The president, who was assassinated on April 14, 1865, had signed legislation to create the U.S. Secret Service hours before he headed to Ford’s Theatre. However, the Secret Service wouldn’t have saved Lincoln had it been created in time—the original purpose was to combat widespread currency counterfeiting. It wasn’t until 1901 that its M.O. was to protect the president. |
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You’ve likely heard about how crazy some of the law enforcement of prohibition laws could be, but it turns out the U.S. government literally poisoned alcohol in its effort to discourage drinking. When people continued to consume alcohol despite its banning, law officials got frustrated and decided to try a different kind of deterrent: death. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the U.S., which were products regularly stolen bootleggers. By the end of Prohibition in 1933, the federal poisoning program is estimated to have killed at least 10,000 people. |
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The First Face Of The $1 Bill Wasn’t Washington. Nope! The first person to appear on this most common bill was Salmon P. Chase. The first $1 bill was issued during the Civil War in 1862. Chase was the Secretary of Treasury at that time and was also the designer of the country’s first bank notes. |
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According to Allstate’s Best Driver’s Report in 2017, which takes a look at the nation’s 200 largest cities, Boston took the not-coveted first place in being the nation’s home to the worst drivers. The best drivers can be found in Kansas City. |
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On the personal finance site WalletHub, experts analyzed the 50 states and Washington, D.C. The used 28 key metrics of happiness, including emotional health, income level, social connectivity, and sports participation rates. Utah came in first, followed by Minnesota. Alabama and West Virginia rank as the unhappiest states in the country. |
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The town of Whittier, Alaska, is an hour southeast of Anchorage. It’s a small town of around 220 people. And these 220 people all live under one roof, in one building. For those who have privacy issues, this is probably not the town for you. |
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Most $100 Bills Aren’t in the Country. According to The Washington Post, $100 bills are one of America’s leading exports: An estimated two-thirds of $100 bills can actually be found overseas. Uh, why? Well, many are definitely used for black-market purchases and other illegal deeds. But many are held onto as savings, in nations like Cyprus and Greece. |
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In Kentucky, There Are More Bourbon Barrels Than People. In Kentucky, the number of bourbon barrels outnumbers the state’s population by more than two million. Kentucky is the birthplace of the drink and crafts 95 percent of the world’s bourbon supply. |
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There’s An Actual Town with Just One Person. Monowi, Nebraska’s single resident is 83 years old. She is the city’s mayor, librarian, and bartender. Her name is Elsie Eiler, she pays taxes to herself, and considers people who reside 40 miles away to be her neighbors. |
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The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania has been on fire for more than 55 years. In the late 1800s to the 1960s, it was a prosperous mining town. However, after a mine caught on fire in in 1962, the flames began to spread underground through the interconnecting tunnels. They haven’t been able to put them out since and the town’s population has drastically decreased. |
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Crater Lake is 1,943 feet deep, which makes it the deepest lake in the United States, as well as the ninth deepest lake in the entire world. There’s only one place that’s safe to swim in this lake, and that only opens in mid- to late-June. |
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In Scottsboro, Alabama, the Unclaimed Baggage Center attracts 800,000 shoppers annually to rifle through people’s lost stuff and purchase unclaimed items. Kinda weird, but it works. Workers unpack an average of 7,000 items per day. What isn’t suitable for retail is donated or thrown out. |
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One of many reasons you are told to stay 500 feet back when following a plow truck!!! If the blade digs into the road it will stop on the spot!! |
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Once again, the Ford Mustang topped the muscle-car sales charts, beating out the Dodge Challenger and Chevy Camaro. Ford moved 75,842 of the ponies in 2018, while Dodge sold 66,716 Challengers for second place, and Chevy sold 50,963 Camaros to bring up the rear. Despite coming in second overall, the Dodge Challenger does get to claim that it's the only one of the three to see sales improve year over year, specifically by 3 percent. Mustang sales were down by 7.4 percent, and the Camaro dropped by a whopping 25 percent compared with 2017. |
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Boeing and NASA Are Working on Airplane Wings That Could Make Flights Faster The wing is not too drastically different from what we see normally on the sides of planes. But underneath the wing is a “truss” (basically a support) that holds the wing up from the bottom. The truss would allow an aircraft to fly at speeds up to 0.8 Mach (about 615 miles per hour). Compared to aircraft from the early 2000s, this type of plane would reduce fuel burn by up to 60 percent. |
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Like many other fast food chains, Denny’s has evolved over the years, the Daily Mealreports. The chain that now calls itself 'America’s diner' started modestly in 1953. Harold Butler and Richard Jezak opened a donut stand in Lakewood, California, and called it 'Danny’s Donuts.' Three years later, they changed the name to Danny’s Coffee Shops and increased their hours. Butler’s motto? 'To serve the best cup of coffee, make the best donuts, give the best service, offer the best value and stay open 24 hours a day.' Find out the first locations of other fast-food chains. By 1959, Butler and Jezak had established 20 restaurants and expanded the menu. But they weren’t the only entrepreneurs who knew that coffee and doughnuts were a winning combination. So to avoid confusion with another California-based chain called 'Donut Dan’s,' Butler and Jezak changed chain’s name to Denny’s Coffee Shops. Don’t miss these other restaurants you didn’t know had changed their names. Then two years later, Butler and Jezak simplified Denny’s Coffee Shops to the name that just stuck: Denny’s. |
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IMDb Launches AVOD Entertainment Streaming Channel Movie website IMDb Jan. 10 announced the launch of IMDb Freedive, a free, ad-supported streaming entertainment video channel. Article: https://www.mediaplaynews.com/imdb-l...treaming-site/ IMdb Freedive streaming site: https://www.imdb.com/freedive/ |
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Amazon's CEO and his wife, MacKenzie, announced Wednesday via a tweet that they intend to divorce. TMZ reported Thursday that the couple did not have a prenuptial agreement, and it's unclear whether they had a postnuptial agreement. Experts say the distinction could be costly for the world's wealthiest man. |
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Statistically, the deadliest job in America is … president. Of the 45 men who’ve held the post, four have been assassinated in office— a rate of roughly 9 percent (or about one in ten) killed on the job. |
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Slightly more than 69 percent of firefighters in the United States are volunteers. |
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The Energy Information Administration reckons that of the total worldwide energy consumption in 2012 of 529 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu), the United States gobbled up 18 percent. Keep in mind the United States supports about 320 million people — just 4.4 percent of the world's population of about 7.2 billion. |
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The most visited museum in the United States is the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, which receives 9 million visitors annually. It is the second most visited museum in the world, after the Louvre. |
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The seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown represents each of the seven continents. |
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One out of every eight people in the United States has been employed by McDonald’s at some point in their lives. |
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More presidents (8) were born in Virginia than in any other state. |
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