Random USA Facts

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    The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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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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    In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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    Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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    Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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