In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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