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The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
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The U.S. military?s dried food rations can be re-hydrated with urine!
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
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The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.
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The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.
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The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world's mail volume.
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The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.
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The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.
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The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.
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The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.
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The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
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The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
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The world?s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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