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    In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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    No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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