Random USA Facts

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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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    Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing
    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    President Coolidge
    President Coolidge
    Former US President Calvin Coolidge (1924-28) enjoyed “buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him”.
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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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