The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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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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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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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