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    In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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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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    In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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    There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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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    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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    In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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