The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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