During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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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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