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 Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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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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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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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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