Random USA Facts

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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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    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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    Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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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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    In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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    President Coolidge
    President Coolidge
    Former US President Calvin Coolidge (1924-28) enjoyed “buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him”.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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