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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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    Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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    In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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    Man Robbed a Bank to Receive Prison Healthcare
    In 2013, a homeless man from Oregon robbed a bank for $1, then casually sat down and waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison.
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    A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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