You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

For those not in the know . . . The Old Man of the Lake is a 30-foot (9 m) tall tree stump, most likely a hemlock, that has been bobbing vertically in Oregon's Crater Lake since at least 1896.

Yup -- there he is ...

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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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Medical errors are the 6th leading cause of death in the U.S.

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More presidents (8) were born in Virginia than in any other state.