In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
8
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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