During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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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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