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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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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