Only one letter doesn’t appear in a U.S. state name. | |
| Look at a map of the United States and you’ll see almost every letter of the alphabet represented in the 50 state names. Only one is absent — a letter so rare, it appears in less than 1% of the main entries of the Concise Oxford Dictionary’s 2004 edition. Benjamin Franklin wanted to omit it from the alphabet entirely. | |
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Famous Americans: The myths everyone believes and why they’re wrong
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No doubt, we love a good legend. Give us a glamorous movie star, a sports hero, or a cultural icon, and we’ll happily embroider the facts to make a story sparkle. But many of the tales we repeat with total confidence never actually happened. Here are some of the most stubborn myths about famous Americans, and (hopefully) the real stories behind them.
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