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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Chanel Tapper, a student from California, USA, has the world's longest tongue, measuring 9.75 cm (3.8 inches), from tip to top lip!
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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