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    A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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    91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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    No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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    There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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    Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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    In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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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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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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