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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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