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    Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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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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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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    Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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    In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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    The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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    Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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