In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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