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    Australian Gambling Syndicate Bought Almost All Lottery Tickets and Won
    In 1992, an Australian gambling syndicate purchased the majority of combinations in a Virginia lottery. They won, turning their $5m investment into $27m winnings.
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    There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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    Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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    The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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    Gay Bomb
    Gay Bomb
    The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
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    In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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    The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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