Random USA Facts

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    The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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    Tim's Place
    Tim's Place
    There's a restaurant in Albuquerque called Tim's Place that serves breakfast, lunch, and hugs - and it's owned by a man with Down's Syndrome.
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    The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
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    Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing
    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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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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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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