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    Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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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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    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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    There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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    91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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    Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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