In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
45
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.
8
Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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