Random USA Facts

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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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    A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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    The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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    Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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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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    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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    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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    The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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