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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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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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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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