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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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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