29 Ways America Is Super Weird Compared to Other Countries
A lot of the stuff that you think is normal really, really isn't
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One of the side effects of living in the United States is thinking that what you see around you is normal. But as it turns out, there's a ton of stuff that's incredibly commonplace in America that would be considered super bizarre elsewhere on the planet. Things like...
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