The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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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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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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