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The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.

The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.

The U.S. military’s dried food rations can be re-hydrated with urine!

The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.

The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.

The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.

The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.

The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world's mail volume.

The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.

The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.

The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.

The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.

The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.

The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!

The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"

The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.

The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!

The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.

The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.

The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.

The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.

The ‘Big Dipper’ is known as ‘The Casserole’ in France.

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States.

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!

There are 206 bones in the human body!

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.

There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.

There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

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