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Five random things I learnt while I was recently in the US:

• Flashing red stoplights mean the same thing as a regular stop sign.
• Light switches are backwards: up is on, down is off.
• Verizon is pronounced [vəˈɹaɪzən], and not, as the comparison to Verisign might suggest, ‘vary-zon’.
• Radio station quality is not as bad as I was lead to believe.
• It’s easy to remember to drive on the right side of the road. It’s much more difficult to remember to stay on the left side of the lane.