In 1893 an amendment was proposed to rename the US to the United States of Earth.
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1 in every 100 American adults are in prison, and that the U.S has more people in prison than China. 40% of which are black, despite black people comprising only 12.5% of the population. If you are a black man born in 1991, there is roughly a one in three chance you will go to jail at some point in your life.
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A German citizen was arrested by the CIA, taken in secret to Afghanistan, tortured, sodomized, and held captive for 5 months. His lawsuit against the U.S./CIA was dismissed to “preserve state secrets”.
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40% of Americans never moved away from the town they were born in.
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In most of the United States you can be fired from your job for basically no reason and have no legal recourse.
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US taxpayers paid more to Israeli defense budget than Israelis.
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Most American adults will never develop past stages 4-6 on Loevinger’s 9-stage developmental scale. Below the seventh stage, most can’t even grasp the existence stages of development beyond their own. Less than 1% of the population will ever reach the 9th, or “Integrated” stage.
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40% of Americans think that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time.
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The current flag of the USA was designed by a 17 year old for a school project. He received a B-.
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Carbon Monoxide is used in the USA to make meat appear fresher. This practice is banned in Canada, Japan, Singapore, and the European Union.
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40.8% of children born in the US in 2010 were to unmarried women.
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The US invaded Guatemala in 1954 and deposed democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán for the benefit of an American fruit company.
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Four undocumented students from Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix, Arizona, beat MIT to win the national underwater robot championship in 2005.
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