One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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