You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

Most $100 Bills Aren’t in the Country. According to The Washington Post, $100 bills are one of America’s leading exports: An estimated two-thirds of $100 bills can actually be found overseas. Uh, why? Well, many are definitely used for black-market purchases and other illegal deeds. But many are held onto as savings, in nations like Cyprus and Greece.

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In Kentucky, There Are More Bourbon Barrels Than People. In Kentucky, the number of bourbon barrels outnumbers the state’s population by more than two million. Kentucky is the birthplace of the drink and crafts 95 percent of the world’s bourbon supply.

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There’s An Actual Town with Just One Person. Monowi, Nebraska’s single resident is 83 years old. She is the city’s mayor, librarian, and bartender. Her name is Elsie Eiler, she pays taxes to herself, and considers people who reside 40 miles away to be her neighbors.

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The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania has been on fire for more than 55 years. In the late 1800s to the 1960s, it was a prosperous mining town. However, after a mine caught on fire in in 1962, the flames began to spread underground through the interconnecting tunnels. They haven’t been able to put them out since and the town’s population has drastically decreased.

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Crater Lake is 1,943 feet deep, which makes it the deepest lake in the United States, as well as the ninth deepest lake in the entire world. There’s only one place that’s safe to swim in this lake, and that only opens in mid- to late-June.

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In Scottsboro, Alabama, the Unclaimed Baggage Center attracts 800,000 shoppers annually to rifle through people’s lost stuff and purchase unclaimed items. Kinda weird, but it works. Workers unpack an average of 7,000 items per day. What isn’t suitable for retail is donated or thrown out.

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One of many reasons you are told to stay 500 feet back when following a plow truck!!! If the blade digs into the road it will stop on the spot!!

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Once again, the Ford Mustang topped the muscle-car sales charts, beating out the Dodge Challenger and Chevy Camaro. Ford moved 75,842 of the ponies in 2018, while Dodge sold 66,716 Challengers for second place, and Chevy sold 50,963 Camaros to bring up the rear. Despite coming in second overall, the Dodge Challenger does get to claim that it's the only one of the three to see sales improve year over year, specifically by 3 percent. Mustang sales were down by 7.4 percent, and the Camaro dropped by a whopping 25 percent compared with 2017.

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