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    In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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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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    In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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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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    The United States does not have an official language.
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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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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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