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that although you can t buy alcohol in the United States until you re 21, you can legally run for governor of California, Massachusetts , Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin when you re 18.

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Ohio was not officially accepted as a member of the United States until 1953, although it had been part of the Northwest Territory prior to that. In 1803, Ohio had submitted a petition to join the union, but their constitution was never approved. In 1953, a law was passed that officially admitted Ohio to the union, but with the date of admission being set back to March 1, 1803.

The United States employed gas chambers as a means of capital punishment until the 1990s.

George Washington signed the 1794 Slave Trade Act, which prohibited U.S. vessels from engaging in the Atlantic Slave Trade and forbade the export of slaves for foreign sale. This was the first significant law against slavery that was passed by the United States government.

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed the Home Brew Act (H.R.1337) into law, which allowed small businesses and individuals to legally brew beer. This act was the beginning of the craft beer revolution in the United States, and it has had a lasting impact on the craft beer industry.

Bourbon is a type of alcohol that is only produced in the United States.

In the late 1970 s, a large amount of Cobalt-60, which is radioactive, was melted down and used to create rebar. This resulted in approximately 4,000 people in both Mexico and the United States being exposed to the contamination. The incident was not discovered until 1984, when a truck driver mistakenly drove into the Los Alamos Lab, which triggered the detectors.

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