Random USA Facts

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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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    Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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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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    Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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    The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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    There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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