TIL that prior to the 25th Amendment, there was no mechanism in the United States Constitution for filling vice presidential vacancies. The US has been without a vice president on 16 occasions for a cumulative 37 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States#Vacancies
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