In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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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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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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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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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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