There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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