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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 Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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    President Coolidge
    President Coolidge
    Former US President Calvin Coolidge (1924-28) enjoyed “buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him”.
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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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    In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from Imperial Japan in 1912. They sent more than 3,000 seeds to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.
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