There is a county in California called Yolo.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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