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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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    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from Imperial Japan in 1912. They sent more than 3,000 seeds to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.
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    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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    Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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    Okay, OK
    Okay, OK
    There is a town called Okay, OK. It has a population of 600 people.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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    The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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