The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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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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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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