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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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    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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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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    The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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