In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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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 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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