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 Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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