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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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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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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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