In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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 Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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