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    Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing
    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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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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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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    Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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