Random USA Facts

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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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    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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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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    Arrested for Farting
    Arrested for Farting
    In 2008, a 13-year-old boy in Florida was arrested for excessive farting in school.
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    In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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    In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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    There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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