Random USA Facts

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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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    The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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    The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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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    In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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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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    In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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