During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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