Random American Facts

    20 facts tagged with American Facts

    Häagen-Dazs
    Häagen-Dazs
    The Häagen-Dazs ice cream creator was American and made up the brand name to sound Danish, unique, and sophisticated. It doesn't mean anything.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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    Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing
    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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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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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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    The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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