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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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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