Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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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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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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 Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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