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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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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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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