Random USA Facts

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    The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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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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    There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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    In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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    Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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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