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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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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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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