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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There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
10
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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