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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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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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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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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