The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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