Random USA Facts

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    91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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    Man Robbed a Bank to Receive Prison Healthcare
    In 2013, a homeless man from Oregon robbed a bank for $1, then casually sat down and waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison.
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    Gay Bomb
    Gay Bomb
    The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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    President Coolidge
    President Coolidge
    Former US President Calvin Coolidge (1924-28) enjoyed “buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him”.
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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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