American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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