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    Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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 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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    91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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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 Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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