During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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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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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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