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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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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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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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