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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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 Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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