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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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