In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
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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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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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