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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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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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    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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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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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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    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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    50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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