The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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 turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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