In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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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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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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