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    Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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    CDC's Zombie Invasion Plan
    The US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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    Man Robbed a Bank to Receive Prison Healthcare
    In 2013, a homeless man from Oregon robbed a bank for $1, then casually sat down and waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison.
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    Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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    A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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    United Arab Emirates Philanthropy
    United Arab Emirates Philanthropy
    The United Arab Emirates donated a laptop to every high school student in Joplin, Missouri, after the city had been devastated by a tornado.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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