In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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