The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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