In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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