The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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