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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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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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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