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    There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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    Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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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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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    In March, 2014, Colorado sold $19 million dollars worth of Cannabis. $1.9 million went to schools and crime fell by 10%.
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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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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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