Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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In March, 2014, Colorado sold $19 million dollars worth of Cannabis. $1.9 million went to schools and crime fell by 10%.
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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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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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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