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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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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