In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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