Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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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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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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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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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 Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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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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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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