In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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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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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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