203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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