Random USA Facts

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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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    Tim's Place
    Tim's Place
    There's a restaurant in Albuquerque called Tim's Place that serves breakfast, lunch, and hugs - and it's owned by a man with Down's Syndrome.
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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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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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    Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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