Random USA Facts

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    The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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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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    Gay Bomb
    Gay Bomb
    The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
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    No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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