Random USA Facts

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    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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    Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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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    Gay Bomb
    Gay Bomb
    The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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