One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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