The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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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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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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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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