Random USA Facts

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    There is a county in California called Yolo.
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    American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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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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    Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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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    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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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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