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The world's tallest snowman was created in Bethel, Maine in 2008. It measured in at 122 feet / 1 inch and weighed 13,000,000 lbs.
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The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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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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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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In 1967, Barack Obama's mother married her second husband, Lolo ("Crazy") Soetoro from Indonesia. Lolo practiced a form of Islam that incorporated ideas from other belief systems.
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