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    The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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    In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from Imperial Japan in 1912. They sent more than 3,000 seeds to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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