There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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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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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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The US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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