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    There is a county in California called Yolo.
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    In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
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    United Arab Emirates Philanthropy
    United Arab Emirates Philanthropy
    The United Arab Emirates donated a laptop to every high school student in Joplin, Missouri, after the city had been devastated by a tornado.
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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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    Gay Bomb
    Gay Bomb
    The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
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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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