US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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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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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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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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