In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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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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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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