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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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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