In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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