In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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