The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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