In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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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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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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