Random USA Facts

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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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    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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    Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    Chanel Tapper, a student from California, USA, has the world's longest tongue, measuring 9.75 cm (3.8 inches), from tip to top lip!
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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