In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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 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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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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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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