One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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