In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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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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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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