The youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects. These insects became extinct thirty years later.

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