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    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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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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    The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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    'Licking' and 'Butts' Are Actual Places in Missouri, US
    There's a city named 'Licking' and a town named 'Butts' in the state of Missouri.
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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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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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    There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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