The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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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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