The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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