The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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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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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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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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