Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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