There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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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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