In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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