In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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