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.
225
Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76
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.
70
In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
27
There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
15
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
72
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
155