The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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In March, 2014, Colorado sold $19 million dollars worth of Cannabis. $1.9 million went to schools and crime fell by 10%.
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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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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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