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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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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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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