In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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