Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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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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