In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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