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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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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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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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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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