Random USA Facts

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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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    Australian Gambling Syndicate Bought Almost All Lottery Tickets and Won
    In 1992, an Australian gambling syndicate purchased the majority of combinations in a Virginia lottery. They won, turning their $5m investment into $27m winnings.
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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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    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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    There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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    Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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    Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing
    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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