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    There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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    Gay Bomb
    Gay Bomb
    The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
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    Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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    President Coolidge
    President Coolidge
    Former US President Calvin Coolidge (1924-28) enjoyed “buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him”.
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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
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