Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA. Fatter patients are more prone to having a surgical tool left inside of them due to the additional amount of space in their bodies.

The U.S. is the largest country named after a real person (Amerigo Vespucci).

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

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